God and Gold in Late Antiquity

The Catholic Historical Review;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...God and Gold in Late Antiquity. By Dominic Janes. (New York: Cambridge...presents it) extends well beyond the Late Roman period into medieval western Europe...recommend this book to students of late antiquity; having said that, I must also admit...

God and Gold in Late Antiquity.(Review)

Antiquity;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......59.95. Historians of late antiquity have long confronted...treasure society' of the late Roman empire of the West. His...both before and during late antiquity. It is not so much that...unquestioned. Chapter 3 turns to late antique biblical exegesis...

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

Theological Studies;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...APPROACHING LATE ANTIQUITY: THE TRANSFORMATION FROM EARLY TO LATE EMPIRE. Edited...period of economic decline and cultural fragmentation, the late Roman world appears in all its diversity and vibrancy through...thinkers only obfuscates the discourse(s) on the divine in Late Antiquity. ...

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

The Catholic Historical Review;  October 1, 2008 ;     641 words ...Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity. By Caroline Humfress. (New York: Oxford...of the best among recent studies in late Roman law, which will not surprise those who...of their authority and their place in late Roman society. In a lucid and solidly constructed...

Life in late antiquity

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Alexandria in Late Antiquity. By Christopher Haas. Johns Hopkins. $45.00. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. By Kate Cooper. Harvard. $37.50. Late Antiquity" is that slice of history filling the space...

Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. (Book Reviews and Notes).

Church History;  December 1, 2001 ;     288 words ...Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. Edited by Richard...cloth; $22.95 paper. Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice is sure to become...classes focused on religions of late antiquity. In this book Valantasis has been...

Halsall, Guy, ed. Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the...

History: Review of New Books;  September 22, 2002 ;     493 words ......2002 The contributors to Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages are on the faculties of universities...unified addition to our understanding of the period from the late Roman Empire to the tenth century. As Halsall notes, scholars have...

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late...

Christianity and Literature;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. By Brouria Bitton-Asbkelony. Berkeley...populace generally were the pilgrims in late antiquity to holy places, while educated Christians...between popular and elite religion in late antiquity is no longer possible (2). It is no...

'LIFE IN LATE ANTIQUITY' FEATURED IN JUNE LECTURE SERIES AT UNIVERSITY OF...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 8, 2007 ;     319 words ......Romans, Greeks, Barbarians and Christians: Approaching the Late Roman Empire," is the first presentation in a June lecture series...Institute lecture series will explore the fascinating world of Late Antiquity, which generally spans the 2nd to the 5th centuries A.D...

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...

MILLER, SAUNDERS RECEIVE GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 12, 2006 ;     677 words ......Corporeal Imagination in Late Antiquity." The book will argue that...early Roman empire to the late Roman and early Byzantine periods...religious imagination in late antiquity in Gnostic, Neoplatonic...The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in ...

Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices.(Book review)

Church History;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices. Edited...400 pp. $99.95 cloth. Violence in Late Antiquity is the product of the fifth biennial...to reassess the violent image of late antiquity that has so dominated the scholarly...

The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late...

Church History;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. By Georgia Frank. Berkeley: University...Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. Moreover, writes Frank, how authors...travels. Since recent scholarship on late antiquity has shown, time and again, the difficulty...

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].

(book reviews)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......presented at the third workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam on the theme...financing the army in the late Roman state. Jean Michel Carrie...breaks in the financing of late Roman armies through an investigation...attributes the seventh-century late Roman defeats to ...