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From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine …
Paul, Community, and Discipline
Over the course of several years, Paul established numerous Christian communities in cities throughout the Roman Empire. Each of these small groups was founded on the premise of …
Syriac World
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand yearsSyriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it …
Altvater Nil
Eumenes II. Selbstdarstellung und Herrschaftslegitimation eines Aufsteigers gegenüber den Mächten seiner Zeit
Trouble in the West
Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian …
Reign of Constantius II
Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius' reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and …
Athenian Revolution
Where did "e;democracy"e; come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "e;power of the people"e; crystallized in a …
Organization of Ancient Economies
In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their …
Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals
This book focuses on the element of thresholds – makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors – as concepts of liminality in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals, and the …
Orthodox Mercantilism
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural …
