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  • Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century

    Current Research and Future Directions

    Edited by Ine Jacobs, Hugh Elton ...
    Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity. It was rarely disturbed by external invasions and remained largely untouched by the continuous Roman-Persian conflict until very late in the period, was apparently well connected to the flourishing Mediterranean economy and, as the region closest to Constantinople, is assumed to have played an important part in the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity

    History and Archaeology Between the Sixth and the Eighth Centuries

    Edited by Panayiotis Panayides, Ine Jacobs ...
    Cyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century did not abruptly bring the island’s prosperity to an end. Recent research instead highlights long-lasting continuity in both urban and rural contexts. This volume brings together historians and archaeologists working on diverse aspects of Cyprus between ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond

    Papers from the 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

    Edited by Ine Jacobs, Jaś Elsner, Julia M. H. Smith ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades. Originating in the first decade of the 21st century from currents within cultural anthropology, Material Religion challenges a foundational assumption of much modern Western thought: that matter and spirit — materiality and religion — ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture

    by Ellen C. Schwartz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Across the Corrupting Sea

    Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

    Edited by Cavan Concannon, Lindsey A. Mazurek ...
    Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

    Edited by Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson ...
    This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Wandering Mind

    What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    by Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Byzantine Art

    by Robin Cormack ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age

    Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine ...
    This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Egyptian Oedipus

    Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

    by Daniel Stolzenberg ...
    An examination of the unique, baroque-era, German Jesuit scholar, Egyptologist, polymath, and prolific author and his studies.A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2–80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, geology, ... Read more

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