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  • The Gods, the State, and the Individual

    Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

    by John Scheid, Clifford Ando ...
    Translated by Clifford Ando ...
    Series series Empire and After
    Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Gods, the State, and the Individual

    Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

    by John Scheid, Clifford Ando ...
    Translated by Clifford Ando ...
    Series series Empire and After
    Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 7 February 2002

    by John Scheid ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the “origins” of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

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    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Voltaire

    by John Gray ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the author of over 2,000 books and pamphlets, including the novel Candide, which criticises and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Historiography

    Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

    by Ernst Breisach ...
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  • Women, Men and Eunuchs

    Gender in Byzantium

    Edited by Elizabeth James ...
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    $75.99 USD

  • Colonizing Christianity

    Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade

    by George E. Demacopoulos ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    "A truly extraordinary reevaluation of historical events in light of new theoretical approaches . . . groundbreaking." — Journal of Orthodox Christian StudiesColonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Ancient History

    Edited by Andrew Erskine ...
    Series Book 199 - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of ancient history.Examines the forms of evidence, problems, approaches, and major themes in the study of ancient historyComprises more than 40 essays, written by leading international scholarsMoves beyond the primary focus on Greece and Rome with coverage of the various cultures within the ancient MediterraneanDraws ... Read more

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  • Roman History: Early to Republic: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Erich S. Gruen ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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