"For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Ea…
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- PART ONE: Foundations -- 1 Eclipse -- 2 The Black Monks -- The Order -- Federation -- The Monastery -- 3 Wallingford -- The Borough -- Son of the Smithy -- The Priory -- 4 Oxford -- The Beginnings of the University -- Grosseteste:…
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eight…
Vol. 1: This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the C…
Volume 1 offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth…
