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Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [PDF]

, 2021
During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles and values on which societies would rely.

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Religious dissent in Late Antiquity, 350–450

, 2020
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups.
Kahlos, Maijastina
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity [PDF]

, 2018
I reviewed the volume by Cillian O' Hogan about "Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity" (Oxford 2016). The volume is the revised version of doctoral thesis of the author written at the University of Toronto, and already in the Introduction (pp.
FABIO NOLFO, Nolfo, Fabio
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The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project: uncovering the Early Islamic phases of a Byzantine town in the Negev Highlands [PDF]

, 2022
Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork by the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project have yielded new evidence of intensive Early Islamic activity in the late antique town of Avdat in Israel's Negev Highlands.

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Dominus and tyrannos? Narratives of slavery in the political discourse of Late Antiquity

, 2020
In her book “Arbitrary Rule. Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death”, the author Mary Nyquist describes the pairing of slavery and tyranny as "political slavery” and distinguishes it from the institution of slavery.
BINSFELD, Andrea
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A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts

Studia Ceranea, 2017
The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by Theodoret of Cyrus. The instances
Ireneusz Milewski
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Liturgy and Charitable Ministration in Late Antiquity

Ex Fonte, 2023
This article analyzes the “diakonia” prayers within the two oldest Greek euchologion manuscripts. The author reviews how later liturgical usage and scholarship has connected these prayers to monastic practice, and traces the ways in which these early ...
Gabriel Radle
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Late Antiquity and Early Islam [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2016
In this paper, an investigation on the relation between state-building and Near Eastern religion is attempted. Analyzing the city-state of Ḥaṭrā (Iraq, close to Kirkuk), it is demonstrated that pre-Islamic state craft in the region was dependent on the ...
Johannes Niehoff
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Assessing the Demographic and Economic Parameters that Determined the Residential History of Medieval Central Greece: the Case of Western Sterea Hellas

Studia Ceranea
The principal objective of this study is to investigate the demographic and economic parameters that shaped the settlement dynamics of medieval Central Greece (Sterea Hellas) over a broad chronological span extending from the 12th to the 16th century ...
George Terezakis
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The Charm of Late Antiquity. Review of: Kreiner, J., & Reimitz, H. (Eds.). (2016). Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 20. Turnhout: Brepols. x + 353 p.

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This review describes the conceptual and content parts of the collection of articles authored by English-speaking specialists in antiquity and the history of the early Middle Ages, analysing the peculiarities of development and functioning of certain ...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov
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