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Historic Genomes Uncover Demographic Shifts and Kinship Structures in Post-Roman Central Europe

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Conceptions of Tolerance in Antiquity and Late Antiquity

Journal of the History of Ideas, 2021
The 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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Late Antiquity

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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The Secular in Late Antiquity

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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Late Antiquity

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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Late Antiquity

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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COMMERCIAL SPACE IN LATE ANTIQUITY

Late Antique Archaeology, 2008
Commercial space in the ancient city involved an integration of retail with small-scale craft production. This chapter concentrates on the evidence for a number of possible activities in shops and small workshops which functioned as points of manufacture and sale in cities.
Toon Putzeys, Luke Lavan
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Enjoying the saints in late antiquity

Early Medieval Europe, 2000
The 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
Literary 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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