Late Antiquity: a very short introduction
Durch Normen wird gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben ermöglicht und reguliert. Welche Handlungen als Transgressionen von Normen etikettiert und sanktioniert werden, ist das Resultat sozialer Aushandlungsprozesse. Transgression und Normdevianz können dabei sowohl das bestehende Nor…
Screening love and sex in the Ancient World
L'éditeur indique : "The Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious - a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's new history…
La 4e de couv. indique : This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. …
This interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which time is staged at the threshold between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Proceeding from the reality that all cultural forms are inherently and inescapably temporal, it seeks to discover the significance of tim…
