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Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00This is the first scholarly book in English for thirty years to consider Augustine's political thought and ethics in relation to his theology of grace and the Bible. It will be essential reading for scholars of Christian theology, late Roman antiquity, the history of western political thought, and political ethics. more...
The Byzantines
Wiley 2009; US$ 44.95This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps more...
Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00Discusses the transformation of Rome in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. more...
Rome in the Pyrenees
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Written by an acknowledged authority on this period and region, this is the first full-length book published in English on a Roman-Gallic town. Drawing from the extensive excavation that he has carried out on the site for many years, Simon Esmonde-Cleary presents this historical and archaeological survey of the important Roman and medieval site... more...
Alpha - Gamma
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 252.00This encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 AD,is more or less the Byzantine Encyclopaedia Britannica of the ancient world. It lists some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers, waters and peoples, explaining their origins and derivations. The founding legends and wealth of cultural historical information contained in it make it a source text... more...
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 35.00An examination of the barbarian migrations and their role in the creation of medieval Europe. more...
Jewish Slavery in Antiquity
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 134.99This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which... more...
Framing the Early Middle Ages
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 64.99In the most ambitious and ground-breaking survey of the early middle ages ever written, Chris Wickham moves away from the fragmentary tendency to view the history of the period as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. Instead he provides a comparative history of the years 400-800 systematically... more...
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 60.00In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold. - ;The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism... more...
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 184.99The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry... more...









