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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Late Antique"”.
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Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters
… the medium of a classicizing sociolect regulated by strictures of genteel conduct and the shared perception of the morality of the pursuit of knowledge. Understanding these letters as forming a Republic of Letters, I contribute to the study of social networking in Late Antiquity by …
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Totalising Rhetoric in Late Antique Greek Poetry
… corpus defined by classical scholars as ‘Late Antique Greek poetry’. The phrase refers to the work of (primarily Christian) poets from the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire roughly between 4th-7th c. AD, at the critical juncture between the Classical Era and the Middle Ages. …
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Late Antique Basilicas on Cyprus sources, contexts, histories
It is commonly accepted that Late Antiquity Cyprus emerged from relative isolation to greater engagement with Constantinople. This thesis reverses the paradigm and offers a contextual account of the island’s basilicas in support of the proposition. Located between New Rome and New Jerusalem, …
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How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate
The Flavii Apiones, owners of a large estate in Byzantine Egypt (fourth to seventh centuries), appear to become quite wealthy, yet the means by which they acquired that wealth is not always clear. Peter Sarris has argued that profit was derived from a category of land called the autourgia, …
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
… of these developments on senators in Rome. Late Roman aristocrats were an imperial aristocracy, whose social life, cultural identity and economic survival were inextricably intertwined with the institutions of the Roman state. Imperial withdrawal and the late-antique strenghthening of …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… available within Christian monasteries of Late Antique Palestine. It then goes further, exploring the impact literate monks had on the Christianization of Byzantine society, and recursively, the impact this newly Christian society had on monasticism. This thesis contributes significantly to …
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Romans and Goths in late antique Gaul: asepcts of political and cultural assimilation in the Fifth Century AD
… created, and to which extent both sides assimilated with each other in terms of their cultural and political understanding. By moving away from the argument of brutal warfare as the main means of contact, I am trying instead to look more at the changes of their cultural understanding which …
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A Study of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis as Early Imperial Greek Texts and Late Antique Latin Translations
… situating them within the context of late Latin historiography. It argues that the persistent Sallustian allusions in Dictys indicate that the translator interpreted the Trojan War through Sallust’s system of moral and political philosophy, and that the Latin Dares was strongly …
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Angels in the Qur’ān: An Examination of Their Portrayal in the Light of Late Antique, Jewish and Christian Beliefs about Heavenly Beings
… portrayal remains the same as, or differs from, late antique, Jewish and Christian beliefs about them. The central role angels appear to play in the Qur’ān suggests their presence there is neither incidental, nor accidental. Although angels are undoubtedly pre-qur’ānic figures, their portrayal in …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… and cultural developments of pre-Islamic late antique Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires …
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Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity
… the recent scholarship on the Red Sea trade in Late Antiquity by merging all of the most up to date information into a concise narrative. In order to accomplish this, three major sources of information have been analyzed. Firstly, the historical time frame of all of the major regions of the Red …
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The Economic Organisation of Egyptian Monasteries and their Estates, c. 400-900 AD
… overturns previous assumptions of how large Late Antique monasteries managed their economic affairs, demonstrating that monasteries’ wealth was often the product of their own economic proactivity rather than the result of donations alone. This work therefore situates itself within the broad …
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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
… and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical origins of heretics served to define Christian schematizations of the world. In studying heretics, …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
… world. Chapter three analyzes the nature of late antique Christian discourse on baths and bathing. After a discourse analysis I juxtapose other forms of evidence against the ascetic-monastic literature and work toward an understanding of social practice in late Roman bathing culture. …
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… dialogue was used by Latin authors in late antiquity (300–700 AD) to negotiate ongoing anti-heretical debates. ❧Traditional scholarship on this topic has focused mostly on the Greek dialogues. When the Latin material received attention, it was read in terms of its appropriation of and …
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Geography and Space in the Poetry of Prudentius
… of geography and space in the poetry of the late antique Latin poet Prudentius (348-c.405 CE). The first chapter discusses the geography of reading, and suggests that Prudentius’ Peristephanon provides a means for the reader to experience the sites of the cults of the martyrs by reading about …
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Fifth-century CE Greek Christian verse paraphrase
… in verse represents a profound cultural shift in late antique culture: Christianity expressed and negotiated its self-declared novelty and its place within the world of late antiquity, not simply by employing narratives of change, but through the transformation of its own textuality. After an …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… has often been dismissed as a harbinger of late antique medical decline. This dissertation challenges this long-lived assumption by revaluating the compiler and his writings, and the place of medicine in the cultural and social landscape of late antiquity. Chapter one examines the scholarly …
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