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1. | | Title: The Advent project: the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass properAuthor: McKinnon, James W 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies | Classical Religions | ChristianityPublisher's Description: In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long- . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Ambrose of Milan: church and court in a Christian capitalAuthor: McLynn, Neil 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. The result is a richly detailed interpretation of Ambrose's actions and writings that penetrates the bishop's painstaking pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical HistoryPublisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Asylia: territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic worldAuthor: Rigsby, Kent J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Politics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Classical PoliticsPublisher's Description: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coin . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Basil of CaesareaAuthor: Rousseau, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Religion | Classics | Ancient History | Christianity | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his pasto . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertaintiesAuthor: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Classical Religions | Classics | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic cultureAuthor: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identityAuthor: Dawson, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Judaism | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New. John David Dawson analyzes the practice and theory of "figural" reading in the Chr . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Christianity and the rhetoric of empire: the development of Christian discourseAuthor: Cameron, Averil Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History | History | Christianity | Ancient History | RhetoricPublisher's Description: Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discou . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: The eye expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman antiquityAuthor: Titchener, Frances B 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Art and Architecture | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence society. In this they were representative of a widespread consensus in ancient culture. Cultural and political impulses informed the fine arts, and these in turn shaped - and were . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Heritage and hellenism: the reinvention of Jewish traditionAuthor: Gruen, Erich S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Judaism | Ancient History | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settl . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Holy women of the Syrian OrientAuthor: Brock, Sebastian P Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion | Classical Religions | ReligionPublisher's Description: The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotat . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Leadership and community in late antique GaulAuthor: Van Dam, Raymond Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth century Gallic aristocrats were becoming bis . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: The making of a heretic: gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy Author: Burrus, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Religion | Christianity | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early ChristianityAuthor: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: The memory of the eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquityAuthor: Frank, Georgia 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions | Classical HistoryPublisher's Description: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original anal . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Off with her head!: the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and cultureAuthor: Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Classical Religions | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head . The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: The private orations of ThemistiusAuthor: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more]Similar Items |
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