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Guilds, Price Formation and Market Structures in Byzantium
The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium. Innovative …
Constantine the Great General
Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire (and thus ensuring its …
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire
From renown Roman historian, Dr. Simon Elliott presents eight of the greatest, most significant battles from the first two and a half centuries of Rome's Imperial period. Dr Simon …
Triumph of Christianity
The ';marvelous' (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose …
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
This is an illustrated military and political chronicle of the world's greatest empire: its leaders and generals, wars and campaigns. It features over 470 photographs, artworks, …
Contested Cures
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury …
A Short History of Roman Law
The most important creation of the Romans was their law. In this book, Dr Tellegen-Couperus discusses the way in which the Roman jurists created and developed law and the way in …
Scripta Quae Manserunt Omnia, fasc. 47
Im Gesamtschaffen des Staatsmannes Marcus Tulius Cicero spielen nicht nur seine rhetorischen, sondern auch seine philosophischen Abhandlungen eine grosse Rolle. Im Rahmen dieser …
Empire Stops Here
The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the …
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of …
Josephus's The Jewish War
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE …
Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy …