Intellectual and empire in Greco-Roman antiquity
Intellectual and empire in Greco-Roman antiquity
In Princely Brothers and Sisters, Jonathan R. Lyon takes a fresh look at sibling networks and the role they played in shaping the practice of politics in the Middle Ages. Focusing on nine of the most prominent aristocratic families in the German kingdom during the Staufen period…
"Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manus…
"Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manus…
The Early Christian Iconography of Divine Inspiration: Novel Approaches to an Old Pictorial Theme -- Inspiration and the Bible in the Post-Iconoclastic Era -- Inspiration Continued: The Writings of the Church Fathers -- Divine Inspiration beyond the Fathers -- Inspired Icons -- …
This book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of…