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  • Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul

    Revisiting the Sources

    by Ralph Mathisen, Danuta Shanzer ...
    Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as the cradle of modern France and Germany. Standard texts and "moments" have emerged and been canonized in the scholarship on the period, be it Gaul aflame in 407 or the much-disputed baptism of Clovis ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World

    Cultural Interaction and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Ralph W. Mathisen, Danuta Shanzer ...
    One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Last Pagans of Rome

    by Alan Cameron ...
    Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome

    Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century

    Edited by Michele Renee Salzman, Marianne Sághy, Rita Lizzi Testa ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-dominant notion of pagan-Christian religious conflict cannot fully explain the texts and artifacts, as well as the social, religious, and political realities of late antique Rome. Together, the essays demonstrate that the fourth-century city ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Constantine

    Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire

    by Timothy D. Barnes ...
    Series Book 16 - Blackwell Ancient Lives
    Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life.First study of Constantine to make use of Kevin Wilkinson's re-dating of the poet Palladas to the reign of Constantine, disproving the predominant scholarly belief that Constantine remained tolerant in matters of religion to the end of his reignClearly sets out the ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • To Follow in Their Footsteps

    The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages

    by Nicholas L. Paul ...
    When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades ... Read more

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  • Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

    by Julia Hillner ...
    This book traces the long-term genesis of the sixth-century Roman legal penalty of forced monastic penance. The late antique evidence on this penal institution runs counter to a scholarly consensus that Roman legal principle did not acknowledge the use of corrective punitive confinement. Dr Hillner argues that forced monastic penance was a product of a late Roman penal landscape that was more ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Emperor of the World

    Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800–1229

    by Anne A. Latowsky ...
    Emperor of the World**, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.**The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome

    The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity

    by Jacob A. Latham ...
    The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Vandals, Romans and Berbers

    New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

    Edited by Andrew Merrills ...
    The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume attempts to redress this imbalance through an examination ... Read more

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD