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  • Picturing Christ

    Understanding Depictions of Jesus in History and Art

    by Daniel Becerra, Jennifer Champoux, Mark D. Ellison; Matthew J. Grey ...
    Picturing Christ tells the story of how Latter-day Saints and other Christians have imagined Jesus and portrayed him in art throughout history, as well as what the archaeological evidence suggests about what he might have looked like. Though what Jesus did is more important than how he looked, how we see him shapes us. Our assumptions about what Jesus would have looked like can have a significant ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity

    Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

    by Mark D. Ellison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
    This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources.Historians of early Christianity have grown increasingly aware that written sources display an enthusiasm for asceticism and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity

    by David Eastman, Mark D. Ellison, Jennifer Awes Freeman, Felicity Harley-McGowan, John J. Herrmann, Jr., David G. Hunter, Jacob Latham, Michael Peppard, William Tabbernee, Annewies van den Hoek, Andrew McGowan0, Lee M. Jefferson1 ...
    Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity

    An Interdisciplinary Symposium

    by Mark D. Ellison, Krystal V. L. Pierce, Susannah M. Larry, Amanda Colleen Brown, Sarah E.G. Fein, Sarah Madole Lewis, Kerry Hull, Lincoln H. Blumell, Maria Evangelatou, Isabel Moreira0, Carolyn Osiek2, Catherine Gines Taylor4 ...
    How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art

    Edited by Robin M. Jensen, Mark D. Ellison ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that discuss specific media of visual art—catacomb paintings, sculpture, mosaics, gold glass, gems, reliquaries, ceramics, icons, ivories, textiles, silver ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Cross

    History, Art, and Controversy

    by Robin M. Jensen ...
    " This erudite history illuminates the social, cultural, as well as theological developments of the cross" through 2000 years of its symbolic evolution ( Library Journal).Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to ... Read more

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  • What Did Jesus Look Like?

    by Professor Joan E. Taylor ...
    Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Ostia in Late Antiquity

    by Douglas Boin ...
    Ostia Antica was Rome's ancient harbor. Its houses and apartments, taverns and baths, warehouses, shops and temples have long contributed to a picture of daily life in ancient Rome. Recent investigations have revealed, however, that life in Ostia did not end with a bang but with a whimper. Only on the cusp of the Middle Ages did the town's residents entrench themselves in a smaller settlement ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • From Idols to Icons

    The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity

    by Robin M. Jensen ...
    Series Book 12 - Christianity in Late Antiquity
    Even the briefest glance at an art museum’s holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography

    Edited by Lea K. Cline, Nathan T. Elkins ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic, social, and religious identities through specific signs, ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Images of the Mother of God

    Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium

    Edited by Maria Vassilaki ...
    Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the 'Mother of God' exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. It brings together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a wide-ranging survey of how the Theotokos was perceived in the Byzantine world. It embraces the disciplines of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Footprints of Michael the Archangel

    The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800

    by J. Arnold ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD