This dissertation explores the resurgence of motifs related to Celtic cultures in Shakespeare’s plays, that is to say the way the pre-Christian and pre-Roman cultures of the British Isles permeate the dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Such motifs do not always evidently app…
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This dissertation examines a number of aspects of the history of the Venetian villa. In particular, it documents Andrea Navagero's influence on the nature of villeggiatura in the sixteenth-century Veneto. Although the initial impetus for this study was the evaluation of Navagero…
The olive was one of the most important plants of the ancient Near East, and olive oil was the petroleum of antiquity. Olive oil was highly valued for a wide variety of purposes: food, illumination, religious ceremonies, crafts and industry, and especially as a major component o…
Histories of medicine in the ancient Greco-Roman world have traditionally been centered on elite men, despite elite men representing only a small portion of medical practitioners in the ancient world. While recent studies have begin to correct this picture, ideas of folk and eli…
Late antique asceticism is a desert, filled with the hidden and unknown, the mysterious and undiscovered. Modern scholars have turned this desert into a library, with a ready-made card catalogue listing all the categories into which late antique asceticism should so neatly fit. …
Following a quick introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 examines scholarship on Rom 13:1–10 to establish a springboard for investigating John Chrysostom's and John of Damascus' interpretation of that passage. This starting point is that Paul wrote Romans between 55–58 C.E., and s…
The present work is centered in the paper that the trance states could have in the Ancient World. We begin the study in the old Mesopotamia and Egypt, passing then to Greece, Carthage, Rome and we conclude in the Canary Islands, populated by groups of North African Berbers in th…
This dissertation makes an analysis of Josephus' Tabernacle account, found in The Jewish Antiquities 3. 99-207, with the goal of: first, shedding further light on his Biblical text; second, determining what non-Biblical sources, both rabbinic and classical, he used; and third, e…
The cultural dialectic that took place in Egypt from the early seventh to the tenth centuries CE, by which a complex society combining Coptic Christianity with a Greco-Roman cultural foundation was transformed into an Arabic-speaking society defined by Islam is examined. By draw…
Cultural fictions linking women or femininity with magic appear repeatedly in every extant rabbinic literary corpus from late antiquity. The regularity of this notion and its authorization by the sages themselves leave a legacy in second-order scholarship, where it is frequently…
The emergence of a self-consciously Christian Roman empire was accompanied by an unprecedented rise of violence carried on between opposed local religious communities. In particular, the Roman world after the reign of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, saw the adven…
My dissertation examines the influence of iambos , a genre of archaic Greek abusive poetry, on Greek literature of the late antique period. Recently, there has been a great deal of work done on iambos ' influence on classical and Hellenistic Greek poets as well as a number of La…
This study posits that compared to other biblical women, the Prophetess Miriam was disproportionately elaborated in Late Antiquity Midrash. The first indication of Miriam's special renown was her association with the Well that accompanied Israel on their forty-year wilderness so…
I examine the two chief anatomical and physiological (embodiment) theories of voluntary animal motion from the time of Aristotle (b. 384 B.C.) to that of Mondino (d, A.D. 1326). The formal study of animal motion commenced with the Greek natural philosopher Aristotle who wrote th…