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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher haas”
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  • Alexandria in Late Antiquity

    Topography and Social Conflict

    by Christopher Haas ...
    Series series Ancient Society and History
    "A valuable and much needed contribution to the study of Alexandria and late antiquity" which presents "a vivid and interesting portrait" ( Classical Review).A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleSecond only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians—among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexandria in Late Antiquity

    Topography and Social Conflict

    by Christopher Haas ...
    Series series Ancient Society and History
    Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSecond only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    A New History of Medieval Europe

    by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry ...
    "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • When Jesus Became God

    The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome

    by Richard E. Rubenstein ...
    "[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife, and bloody riots within the Christian community as it was coming into being, however, is a side of ancient ... Read more

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Pagans and Christians

    In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Byzantium

    The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

    by Judith Herrin ...
    A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possibleByzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium—long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • A History of Byzantium

    by Timothy E. Gregory ...
    Series Book 14 - Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidenceIncludes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliographyIncorporates a new section on web resources ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Western Christendom

    Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000

    by Peter Brown ...
    Series Book 3 - Making of Europe
    This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.Clear ... Read more

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  • Constantine the Emperor

    by David Potter ...
    This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Ruin of the Roman Empire

    A New History

    by James Joseph O'Donnell ...
    "A learned and often visceral account of how the Mediterranean ceased to be Roman, which serves simultaneously as charge sheet and lament." —Tom Holland, award-winning author of DominionThe dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of Byzantium

    Edited by Cyril Mango ...
    The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The ... Read more

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