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Conceptions of Tolerance in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2021The focus of this essay is on ancient and late antique views on the tolerance of insult. It explores the honor-centered structure of ancient and late antique thinking on this subject, and it draws out the implications of Christian attitudes toward tolerance of insult for the possibility of religious tolerance in late antiquity.
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Phronesis
Abstract After its second-century heyday, the Roman empire faced grave new challenges from without—a revived Persian empire in the east; enlarged Germanic groupings attacking from the north; and, from the 370s, the Huns, the first of a series of steppe nomad powers to threaten the Balkans.
Christian Raffensperger, Florin Curta
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Abstract After its second-century heyday, the Roman empire faced grave new challenges from without—a revived Persian empire in the east; enlarged Germanic groupings attacking from the north; and, from the 370s, the Huns, the first of a series of steppe nomad powers to threaten the Balkans.
Christian Raffensperger, Florin Curta
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2010
Markus Robert Austin. The secular in Late Antiquity. In: Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Rome : École Française de Rome, 2010. pp. 353-361. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 428)
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Markus Robert Austin. The secular in Late Antiquity. In: Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Rome : École Française de Rome, 2010. pp. 353-361. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 428)
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2001
Abstract The period covered in this chapter has often been portrayed either as the golden age of early Christianity, or as a time when it was corrupted from its early purity by association with the state. Each of these views is an over-simplification, the second perhaps more so, with its implication of an Ur-faith, existing pure and ...
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Abstract The period covered in this chapter has often been portrayed either as the golden age of early Christianity, or as a time when it was corrupted from its early purity by association with the state. Each of these views is an over-simplification, the second perhaps more so, with its implication of an Ur-faith, existing pure and ...
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2019
This chapter considers Jewish population movement from late antiquity through the end of the eighteenth century, with a focus on often-neglected voluntary Jewish relocation; it offers a balanced assessment of the proportional relationship between compulsory displacement of Jews and voluntary relocation.
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This chapter considers Jewish population movement from late antiquity through the end of the eighteenth century, with a focus on often-neglected voluntary Jewish relocation; it offers a balanced assessment of the proportional relationship between compulsory displacement of Jews and voluntary relocation.
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Enjoying the saints in late antiquity
Early Medieval Europe, 2000The discovery at Mainz by Franĉois Dolbeau of a new collection of sermons of Augustine has enabled us to study, in far greater detail, the attitude of Augustine to the reform of the cult of the martyrs between 391 and 404. This study aims to understand Augustine’s insistence on the need to imitate the martyrs against the background of his views on ...
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PRODUCTIVE SPACE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Late Antique Archaeology, 2008This chapter concentrates on evidence for space involved in the preparation of raw materials and for large-scale manufacturing. Such activities normally took place in districts where raw materials were found, or in separate industrial quarters on the outskirts of the city.
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Religious Space In Late Antiquity
Late Antique Archaeology, 2008Literary sources, though providing some compelling details on changes in religious practice, are not wholly reliable: pagans, after the late 4th c. had little reason to publicise their ceremonies and much of what the author knows about some cults is based on the resumes of Christian commentators, who inevitably look at temples with a Christian agenda ...
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Late Antique Archaeology, 2013
This paper identifies the decisive factors in the course and outcome of wars in Late Antiquity. While many of these factors are also significant to war in other periods, it is argued that an unprecedented level of fortification work, carried out by successive regimes, was the distinctive characteristic of late antique warfare.
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This paper identifies the decisive factors in the course and outcome of wars in Late Antiquity. While many of these factors are also significant to war in other periods, it is argued that an unprecedented level of fortification work, carried out by successive regimes, was the distinctive characteristic of late antique warfare.
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