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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Late Antiquity"”.
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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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Amidst the Trees: Encountering the Arboreal in Late Antiquity
… upon them, helped Christians and others in late antiquity understand both themselves and the arboreal world. A tactile relationship with trees shaped cultural, religious, and philosophical knowledge to such an extent that articulations of salvation, nature, pleasure, and identity can no …
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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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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
In antiquity, bathing was not the private affair it is today. It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman society. Baths dotted the landscapes of cities across the empire, and even villages, military forts, monasteries, and villas contained public (or semi-public) baths. After an …
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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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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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Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity
… texts that indicate how Jews of Early and Late Antiquity dealt with a world ruled by an omnipotent God who governed a cosmos where disorder vied with order. God's bounty reflected his good will towards those faithful to his laws, and disobedience resulted in the infliction of misfortune. A …
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The perception of women in late antiquity and the impact it had on female asceticism.
… study aims to explore and explain why women in Late Antiquity felt inspired to be ascetic. Early Church Fathers believed all women were flawed like Eve, and the dissertation highlights how these negative perceptions could be overcome when women became ascetic. An object of the study is to …
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Asceticism, the sage, and the evil inclination : points of contact between Jews and Christians in late antiquity.
… comparative studies, especially concerning late antiquity, there exists a need to explore in more detail the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted religiously and socially. Scholars have hinted at the need to address salient issues in the histories of both Judaism and Christianity …
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The Kingdom of the Gepids during late antiquity power, territory, and identity in a forgotten successor kingdom
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
… Christian writers around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (second- to eighth-century) depicted Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other women, both imperial and non-imperial, in both East and West, as church leaders, apostles, and priests. Over time scribes and artists transformed these early …
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Invention or evolution in the provision of health care in late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire : the case of the hospital.
… there were new elements that came into play in Late Antiquity in the East with respect to the society’s attitude towards the sick, especially the indigent sick, and its manner of dealing with them. This examination will lead to me to suggest aspects in which there appears to be a predominance of …
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Augustine's incarnational hermeneutics and postmodernity
… with a contextualization of the hermeneutic of late antiquity, then follows Augustine’s analysis of the three-fold schema of language: res, verbum, and dicibile. Primary texts for these topics are On Christian Doctrine, Against the Academic Skeptics, and The Teacher. Secondary literature …
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The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics
… of two sections: 1) "The Immanent Body in Late Antiquity": an analysis of late ancient christology, Stoicism and philosophy; 2) "The Extended Body: Aesthetics": depictions of monastic bodies in late medieval, Renaissance and contemporary art.</p> <p>I. The thesis of this dissertation can be …
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The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
… during the same period, The Sayings, articulated an existential dimension of salvation experienced as deliverance from sin and manifested in restored communion between God and the believer. Using genre as its primary unit of analysis, this study reveals the unique theology of salvation found …
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Feeling Like a Holy Warrior: Western Authors' Attributions of Emotion as Proof of Motives for Violence Among Christian Actors in Military Conflicts, Tenth Through Early Twelfth Centuries
… and uncontrollable almost consistently since Late Antiquity: violence and those who engage in it, and emotions. However, it will be seen that in the Western Mediterranean and Southern and Central Western Europe, from Late Antiquity through the early-Twelfth Century, these areas were carefully …
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