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Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the …
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings
Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which …
The History of Rome
From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in …
Story of the Roman Amphitheatre
This thoroughly corrected, updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical …
Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453
The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western …
Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education
At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to …
Migration Ballads
Libanius the Sophist
Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most …
Architects of Ottoman Constantinople
The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. …
Julius Caesar
One of the greatest military commanders in history, Julius Caesar's most famous victory the conquest of Gaul was to him little more than a stepping stone to power.An audacious …
Paul and the Giants of Philosophy – Reading the Apostle in Greco–Roman Context
Biblical Foundations Award Finalist What forces shaped the intellectual world of the apostle Paul? How familiar was he with the great philosophers of his age, and to what …
Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century
Bernard Heyberger carved new paths in the study of Middle Eastern Christianity, helping to shed fresh light on aspects of the connected history of the Near East that had previously …