The Oxford Dictionary Of Late Antiquity

Author : Oliver Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192562460
Total Pages : 1743 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity written by Oliver Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195336933
Total Pages : 1295 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity written by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 1295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late antiquity extends from the accession of the Christian emperor Constantine to the rise of Muhammad and early Islam (ca. 300-700 AD). This volume takea account of the scholarship published in the last 30 years and provide a foundational synthesis for students of late antiquity.

Author : Jan Stenger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198869789
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in Late Antiquity written by Jan Stenger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education in Late Antiquity explores how the Christian and pagan writers of the Graeco-Roman world between c. 300 and 550 CE rethought the role of intellectual and ethical formation. Analysing explicit and implicit theorization of education, it traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation. Influential scholarship has seen the postclassical education system as an immovable and uniform field. In response, this book argues that writers of the period offered substantive critiques of established formal education and tried to reorient ancient approaches to learning. By bringing together a wide range of discourses and genres, Education in Late Antiquity reveals that educational thought was implicated in the ideas and practices of wider society. Educational ideologies addressed central preoccupations of the time, including morality, religion, the relationship with others and the world, and concepts of gender and the self. The idea that education was a transformative process that gave shape to the entire being of a person, instead of imparting formal knowledge and skills, was key. The debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, thus orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation from the fourth to the sixth centuries

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199546207
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction written by Gillian Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199567386
Total Pages : 1640 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Classical Dictionary written by Simon Hornblower and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity.

Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199670560
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity written by Anna Marmodoro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the persona of the author in classical Greek and Latin authors from a range of disciplines and considers authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice.

Author : S. R. F. Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192802897
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion written by S. R. F. Price and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion offers a fully rounded and highly authoritative point of access to all aspects of ancient religious life and thought. Dr Simon Price and Dr Emily Kearns, area advisers for the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, have come together to select, revise, edit, and in some cases wholly recast, a large number of key entries from OCD to create this handy, accessible reference work on mythology and religion in the Graeco-Roman world. Bringing to the attention of a wider audience the authority and scholarly rigour of OCD, the Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion provides students, teachers, and general readers with an affordable comprehensive, and wide-ranging A-Z reference source. The Dictionary is unique in that in addition to Greek myths and Roman festivals it covers Greek and Roman religious places, monuments, religious personnel, divination, astrology, and magic, and also contains many entries on Judaism and Christianity in Greek and Roman times.

Author : Claudia Rapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195389336
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium written by Claudia Rapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism.

Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199915407
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East written by Philip Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume arose out of a seminar series organised at the Classics Centre of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and a subsequent workshop in 2010.

Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674511736
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Antiquity written by Glen Warren Bowersock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 11 in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia entries, a cast of experts provides fresh perspectives on an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented upheavals, and the creation of art of enduring glory. 79 illustrations, 16 in color.