Demons in Late Antiquity: Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres 9783110632231, 9783110626728

Demons in Late Antiquity: Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres 9783110632231, 9783110626728

The perception of demons in late antiquity was determined by the cultural and religious contexts. Therefore the authors

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Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity 0190221232, 9780190221232

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining p

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City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity 9780520956841

Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everyt

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The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity

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Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 9781501735301

By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially

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Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts 9780860789819, 0860789810

Seeks to delineate a histographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject matter of a ne

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Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity 9780520971806

A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Flight during times of persecution has

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Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity 9781789693218

Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity is the first book

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Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity 9783111010311, 9783110997637

Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of

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Urban Religion in Late Antiquity 9783110641813, 311064181X

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with

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