God and Gold in Late Antiquity.(Review)

Antiquity;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......treasure society' of the late Roman empire of the West. His...its integration into late antique society, which helped...framework for his analysis of late Roman society's use of precious...unquestioned. Chapter 3 turns to late antique biblical exegesis to...

Corinth, The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult...

Journal of Biblical Literature;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion, by...Chapter 1, "Reconsidering Late Antique Religion," offers a seven-pa...introductory chapter, "The Late Antique City," introduces us to Corinth in the late Roman period. There, in twenty-o...political ...

Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to Late...

Theological Studies;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......cultural fragmentation, the late Roman world appears in all its...miniatures created a distinctively late antique approach to art that has...however, that pagan images in late antique poetry carried no taint of...in mummy portraiture from late antique Egypt belies any ...

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World.(Book...

Church History;  March 1, 2005 ;     315 words ......Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel...the stars in a variety of ancient and late antique contexts. The book, which is directed...Here, There, and Anywhere argues that late antique Mediterranean religiosity is marked...

Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimiliation and Resistance

Journal of Biblical Literature;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 315. $49.50. Late antique Egypt has usually served as a backdrop...relatively untrodden path and instead studies late antique Egypt from the inside out, so to speak...largely overlooked by historians of late antique Mediterranean religions and provocative...

The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique...

Church History;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq. By Joel Thomas Walker. The Transformation...that situate the text in the setting of late antique Iraq, will hopefully stimulate further...the literary themes and concerns of late antique Iraq than about the historical figure...

The date of Pevensey and the defense of an 'Imperium Britanniarum.'

Antiquity;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...New work at the late Roman fort at Pevensey has recovered oak foundation piles...coastal forts of which Pevensey is a part. The late Roman forts, and their date The remains of the late Roman fort at Pevensey, East Sussex, are generally identified...

Between fasting and feasting: the literary and archaeobotanical evidence...

Antiquity;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......evidence from Egyptian Late Antique monasteries have yet...currently available from Late Antique monasteries in Egypt...documentary record of Late Antique Egypt allows an archaeobotanist...Limitations of written evidence Late Antique Egypt is the best documented ...

Corinth: late Roman horizons.

Hesperia;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT This article reviews the investigation of Late Roman Corinth, including the recent excavations in...revisions to the monumental history of the Late Roman city. INTRODUCTION: LATE ROMAN CORINTH Several large gaps exist in our knowledge...

Dominique Pieri. Le commerce du vin oriental a l'epoque Byzantine (Ve-VIIe...

Antiquity;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......1981 resulted in the terminology for Late Roman amphorae used by most people working...considering examples from well-dated Late Roman contexts in Gaul. She then considers...monograph relevant to all those working on Late Roman archaeology and its appeal will be clear...

Ambrose: church and society in the late Roman world.

Antiquity;  December 1, 1999 ;     33 words ...JOHN MOORHEAD. Ambrose: church and society in the late Roman world. x+235 pages. 1999. London: Longman; 0-582-25112-5 & 0-582-25113-3 hardback & paperback 45 [pounds sterling] & 14.99 [pounds sterling].

The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

Journal of Biblical Literature;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......centuries of anachronistic depictions of late antique Jews: a careful review of the Greco...entity parallel to the other (...) of the late antique world. Cohen then attempts to locate...conclusion does not emerge from the rich late antique data he himself presents. A prime example...

UNH professor wins two fellowships

Concord Monitor;  April 21, 2007 ;     189 words ......fellowships to research and write a book on Christianization in late antique Egypt. David Frankfurter received a Guggenheim Fellowship...Egypt - how its cultural traditions were transformed in the late antique period to assimilate Christianity," Frankfurter said. "I...

From Polis to Pasture: Exploring the Cypriot Countryside of Late Antiquity

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......may yet emerge. The Vasilikos Valley in Late Roman Times North American contributions to...that were worked from prehistory through late Roman times. The valley narrows sharply at...occurred in the Neolithic, Late Bronze, and late Roman periods. The scene of greatest activity...

Alive and well: the state of Roman pottery studies.(Etudes sur la...

Antiquity;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......amp; M.A. CAU ONTIVEROS (ed.). LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae...The arrival of two hefty volumes on late Roman pottery bears witness to the flourishing...by shared methodologies. North African late Roman ceramics This volume, the thesis of Michel...