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  • Legible Religion

    Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture

    de Duncan MacRae ...
    Scholars have long emphasized the importance of scripture in studying religion, tacitly separating a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman religious culture to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?In the ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Legible Religion

    Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture

    de Duncan MacRae ...
    Scholars have long emphasized the importance of scripture in studying religion, tacitly separating a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman religious culture to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?In the ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Intensive Care of the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease

    Edición de Eduardo da Cruz, Duncan Macrae, Gary Webb ...
    Series series Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults
    Dedicated to the critical management of acutely ill adults with congenital heart disease, this comprehensive book discusses the many challenges faced in the management of these patients, who require intensive inter- and trans-disciplinary care. It provides the first universal review of the practical management of patients with these complex conditions, who survive into adulthood with congenital ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

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  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    de Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Libro 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome

    Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century

    Edición de Michele Renee Salzman, Marianne Sághy, Rita Lizzi Testa ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-dominant notion of pagan-Christian religious conflict cannot fully explain the texts and artifacts, as well as the social, religious, and political realities of late antique Rome. Together, the essays demonstrate that the fourth-century city ... Leer más

    $122.99 USD

  • A Place at the Altar

    Priestesses in Republican Rome

    de Meghan J. DiLuzio ...
    A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    de John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Imagine No Religion

    How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

    de Carlin A. Barton, Daniel Boyarin ...
    "Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." —Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's LibraryWhat do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edición de Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Last Pagans of Rome

    de Alan Cameron ...
    Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Murder Was Not a Crime

    Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic

    de Judy E. Gaughan ...
    Series series Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture
    "Explore[s] with impressive scholarship cases of unlawful killing in the regnal period, the early and mid-republic and the post-Sullan era." —UNRV.comEmbarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

    de Dr. Shane Bobrycki ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in early medieval Europe. In The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, Bobrycki shows that although demographic ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD