Rome category: 2065 books
by Prosper Ankh
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
It is now highly controversial to claim that Jesus Christ was a Black man, although he was considered to be Black in ancient times. The controversy of the race of Jesus Christ and the ancient Israelites and Jews will be explored in this work.
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea
Defining Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity, 325 CE
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders. Emperor Constantine has sanctioned Christianity as a legitimate religion within the Roman Empire but discovers that Christians do not agree on fundamental aspects of their...
Thorns in the Flesh
Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness....
The Didache (English and Greek text)
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Didache is one of the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament, probably written in the late first or early second century AD. It deals with early Christian teaching on ethics, baptism, fasting, the eucharist and church life. An incredibly important and illuminating primary source...
Policing the Roman Empire
Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict resolution and social control. This model,...
by Wylie, James A.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The following demonstration is rested on no narrow basis. Its two postulates, like two posterns, admit us into the edifice, but they are not its foundations. The whole economy of Redemption, and the whole course of History are the broad substructions on which the argument is based and built up; and...
by Éric Rebillard
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of scholarship is revealing the degree to which...
Constantius II
Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times.
When Constantine I...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry.
The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates...
Q. Aurelius Symmachus
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Symmachus was a brilliant orator, writer, and statesman, often flatly labeled as one of the last pagan senators. Cristiana Sogno offers a reconstruction of the political career of Symmachus through close analysis of his extensive writings, while also proposing a critical reevaluation of his historical...
by Francesco Del Vecchio
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2012
I tasselli essenziali del “puzzle” della storia unitaria inseriti correttamente al loro posto, attraverso le testimonianze dei protagonisti, la freddezza della logica, la conoscenza dei fatti e la passionalità del narratore. La creazione di uno stato federale che fu proposta da Cattaneo e dai...
Roman and Greek History
Essays for Students and Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Why does history fascinate us and why, in particular, does ancient Greek and Roman history seem to have such a powerful hold on our modern psyches? Is it the huge and heroic characters, like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, who strut across the stage with such ruthless aplomb or is it the fact...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened.
Presenting the most current work including...
The Tragedy of the Caesars
A Study of the Characters of the Caesars of the Julian and Claudian Houses
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.