Tag: Late Antiquity

The passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in late antiquity

L. Stephanie Cobb, Andrew S. Jacobs, The passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in late antiquity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout …

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Fourteenth Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity: Call for Papers

Call for Papers Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XIV: Scale and Study of Late Antiquity The Ohio State University March 24–27, 2021

For the Fourteenth Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity, we invite papers that investigate scale, which can be defined as a graduated range of values or measurements, whether, …

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Workshop: Epistolary Poetry from late Antiquity to Late Byzantium

University of Vienna, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Exploratory Workshop, 10 June 2017. “Epistolary Poetry from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium”.

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Epistolary Poetry from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium

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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, New York 2016.

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy’s …

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Παναγιώτης Καμπάνης, ΦΥΛΑΞ – Τα φυλακτά της ύστερης αρχαιότητας

Παναγιώτης Καμπάνης, ΦΥΛΑΞ – Τα φυλακτά της ύστερης αρχαιότητας, εκδ. Γράφημα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017.

Εθνικοί και χριστιανοί θεωρούσαν τα φυλαχτά ως αντικείμενα προικισμένα με υπερφυσική δύναμη, χάρη στην οποία εξουδετέρωναν όλες τις συμφορές που προκαλούσαν στην ανθρώπινη ζωή οι δαίμονες του κακού. Για να ανακαλύψουμε το βαθύτερο νόημα ενός φυλαχτού χρειάζεται να εισχωρήσουμε στα …

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