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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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The Roman empire [PDF]

, 2006
The Roman empire forms the broader political, social and religious context for the emergence of early Christianity. The path leading to Rome's imperial history was set by Gaius Julius Caesar, who was assassinated in 44 BCE by senators fearing that he was trying to become a new Roman king. Whereas, the very death of Jesus by crucifixion, a Roman capital
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Dalla Translatio imperii al certamen pro imperio: Dante e l’agonismo della storia [PDF]

Storia e Politica, 2023
The historical reconstruction of the Roman Empire that Dante undertakes in the second book of the Monarchia is grounded on the agonistic similitude of the certamen. As an instrument to ascertain the will of God, the ‘race’ for world domination won by the
Flavio Silvestrini
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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ROMAN LAW FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN INSTITUTION OF PERSONAL SERVITUDES

Pravo
Although servitudes did not originally emerge in Roman law, but much earlier, Roman law laid the legal foundations for this institution, as well as for the majority of legal institutions that, through the influence of Roman legal history and tradition ...
Nenad D. Stefanovic, Vladimir Vuletić , Goran Milojević   +2 more
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Los "beneficia" concedidos a las ciudades de Acaya en el año 66 d.C.

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 1997
Situación de las ciudades griegas durante en Alto Imperio romano y la Román Empire, política faborable de Nerón, análisis de los beneficios concedidos en su viaje a la provincia Acaya. The Greek cities sitiation in the Roman Empire, and the Nero´s
Pilar Fernández Uriel
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Roman victory propaganda – Revelation’s response: A historical and theological study

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The believers of Christ in the 1st century AD find themselves in a difficult situation. On one hand, they receive the gospel about Jesus’ victory over the world.
Łukasz Bergel
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Das Partherreich als Bindeglied der Seidenstraße zwischen China und Rom

Historia.scribere, 2019
This paper analyses the role of the Parthian Empire in the Silk Road trade between China and the Roman Empire. It examines Parthian, Roman and Chinese sources to achieve a better understanding of its importance for trade contacts along the Silk Road.
Bettina Darlap
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