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  • Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture

    Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae

    by Joseph A. Howley ...
    Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual life. In this book Joseph Howley demonstrates how the work may be read as a literary text in its own right, and discusses the rich evidence it provides for the ancient history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture. He argues that ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE

    Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, Joseph A. Howley ...
    Series series Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
    This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in scholarship on book history and Atlantic slavery, the authors demonstrate the myriad ways in which the material and intellectual contributions of enslaved literary workers ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics

    Activist Nation Rising

    by Linda Kenix, Linus Andersson, Suzanne Berg, Prashanth Bhat, Nune Grigoryan, Nina Gjoci, Kevin Howley, Robert Joseph, Emi Kanemoto, G. Brandon Knight0, Madison Olinger1, Chad Painter2, Jennifer Rauch3, Wolfgang Suetzl4, Krishnan Vasudevan5, Tao Zhang6, Joshua D. Atkinson8, Laura A. Stengrim9 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The rise of the modern Internet and social media platforms have allowed for the proliferation of alternative media across society in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. Today, alternative media have become more ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • God's Ghostwriters

    Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

    by Candida Moss ...
    From an award-winning biblical scholar, the story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Women, Men and Eunuchs

    Gender in Byzantium

    Edited by Elizabeth James ...
    The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

    Edited by John Marincola ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholarsPresents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquityThese are complemented by chapters on ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Brief History

    by Sir Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.'VoltaireMontesquieu, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, Smith, Gibbon, Bentham... These are among the great thinkers who contributed to the dramatic developments in religion, science and philosophy that we now call the Enlightenment. They dominated the second half of the eighteenth century and their writings continue to shape the intellectual and ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Ancient History

    Edited by Andrew Erskine ...
    Series Book 199 - Wiley 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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  • A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

    Edited by Beryl Rawson ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic historyIncludes contributions from ... Read more

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