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  • Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World

    Edited by Ville Vuolanto, Oana-Maria Cojocaru ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
    This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies. This edited collection brings together fourteen chapters based on case-studies from its contributors, along with a theoretical chapter that serves as the introduction. Throughout history, people have gone on ... Read more

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  • Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity

    Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity

    by Ville Vuolanto ...
    In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE

    Edited by Chris L. de Wet, Maijastina Kahlos, Ville Vuolanto ...
    Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume establishes ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Experiencing Space

    Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval Contexts

    Edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Saku Pihko, Ville Vuolanto ...
    This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE–1500 CE.The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue durée. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World

    Edited by Christian Laes, Ville Vuolanto ...
    Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

    Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

    by Claudia Rapp ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium

    Edited by Conor Whately, Michael Stewart, David Parnell ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A Companion to Late Antiquity

    Edited by Philip Rousseau ...
    Series Book 163 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the MediterraneanComprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • A Companion to Roman Religion

    Edited by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 78 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.An innovative introduction to Roman religionApproaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Beyond Greek

    The Beginnings of Latin Literature

    by Denis Feeney ...
    A History Today Best Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mapping Medieval Geographies

    Edited by Keith D. Lilley ...
    Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical ... Read more

    $38.59 USD