"Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of 'spolia' in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes that mark the end of classical antiquity. As hi…
"Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of 'spolia' in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes that mark the end of classical antiquity. As hi…
Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars documents and analyses this de…
Aus dem Mittelalter ist eine riesige und für die Forschung schier unübersehbare Menge an chronikalischen Werken überliefert, in denen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart festgehalten, literarisch aufbereitet und interpretiert werden. Das vorliegende Handbuch stellt die wichtigsten mitte…
"This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, fa…
"This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, fa…
For the early Christians, "pagan" referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and "barbarians" such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan…
For the early Christians, "pagan" referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and "barbarians" such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan…
When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman…
