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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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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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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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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From shame to sin: the Christian transformation of sexual morality in late antiquity 9780674660014, 9780674074569, 9780674072770

When Rome was at its height, an emperor’s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empi

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Christian Divination in Late Antiquity 9789048541010

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a vari

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