Category: Ancient History

The speculation that the Gospel of Mark used to be seriously stimulated by way of Pauline theology and/or epistles used to be common within the 19th century, yet fell out of favour for far of the 20 th century. within the final 20 years or so, even though, this view has all started to draw renewed aid, specially in English language scholarship. This significant and critical selection of essays via a global staff of students seeks to maneuver the dialogue ahead in a few major ways – tracing the heritage of the speculation from the 19th century to the fashionable day, looking for ancient connections among those early Christians, analysing and evaluating the theology and christology of the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and assessing their reception in later Christian texts. This significant quantity can be welcomed by means of people who find themselves drawn to the prospective impact of the apostle to the Gentiles at the earliest Gospel.

This quantity comprises twelve contributions at the city improvement of the close to East and North Africa in past due Antiquity. at the one hand the authors think about old and cultural elements of the sector. A finished element of illustrations of recent archaeological fabric and its interpretation then shape the second one concentration of this quantity of papers.

Histoire de Rome - Livre XXII
Ammien Marcellin, Né vers 330 à Antioche sur l’Oronte (aujourd’hui en Turquie), mort vers 395 (au plus tard en 400)

Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire de Rome - Livre XXII», de Ammien Marcellin, édité en texte intégral. Une desk des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes sections.

Table des matières
- Présentation
- Chapitre I
- Chapitre Ii
- Chapitre Iii
- Chapitre Iv
- Chapitre V
- Chapitre Vi
- Chapitre Vii
- Chapitre Viii
- Chapitre Ix
- Chapitre X
- Chapitre Xi
- Chapitre Xii
- Chapitre Xiii
- Chapitre Xiv
- Chapitre Xv
- Chapitre Xvi

Exploring the interesting cross-cultural impacts among Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the 20 th century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by way of top historians, literary students, and musicologists to provide a well-rounded heritage of Italian Jewry.

The individuals supply wealthy pics of the numerous brilliant different types of cultural and inventive expression that Italian Jews contributed to, yet this quantity additionally can pay shut realization to the ways that Italian Jews - either freely and stressed - creatively tailored to the social, cultural, and felony norms of the encircling society. Tracing either the triumphs and tragedies of Jewish groups inside Italy over a large span of time, Acculturation and Its Discontents demanding situations traditional assumptions approximately assimilation and kingdom intervention and, within the procedure, charts the advanced means of cultural alternate that left any such unique imprint not just on Italian Jewry, but in addition on Italian society itself.

This number of rigorous and thought-provoking essays makes a massive contribution to either the historical past of Italian tradition and the cultural impact and importance of eu Jews.

First released in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Pliny's Panegyricus (AD a hundred) survives as a different instance of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It bargains an eyewitness account of the final years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates an in depth senatorial view at the behaviour anticipated of an emperor. it really is an immense record within the improvement of the beliefs of imperial management, however it additionally contributes vastly to our figuring out of imperial political tradition extra quite often. This quantity, the 1st ever dedicated to the Panegyricus, includes professional reports of its key old and rhetorical contexts, in addition to very important severe techniques to the broadcast model of the speech and its effect in antiquity. It bargains students of Roman background, literature and rhetoric an up to date review of key methods to the speech, and scholars and readers an authoritative creation to this important and under-appreciated speech.

Christianity within the overdue vintage international used to be now not imposed yet embraced, and the laity weren't passive individuals in their faith yet had a critical function in its production. This quantity explores the function of the laity in Gaul, bringing jointly the fields of background, archaeology and theology.

First, this publication follows the ways that clergy and clergymen attempted to form and manufacture lay non secular event. they'd themselves developed the class of 'the laity', which served as a unfavorable counterpart to their self-definition. Lay spiritual adventure used to be hence formed partially through this have to create distinction among different types. The publication then specializes in how the laity skilled their faith, how they interpreted it and the way their judgements formed the character of the Church and in their religion. This a part of the learn will pay cautious cognizance to the range of the laity during this interval, their spiritual environments, ritual engagement, behaviours, wisdom and beliefs.

The first quantity to ascertain laity during this interval in Gaul – a key sector for wondering the transition from Roman rule to post-Roman society – The non secular Worlds of the Laity in overdue vintage Gaul fills an incredible hole in present literature.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, word: 1,7, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Makedonische Hegemonie und Reichsbildung (4. Jh. v. Chr.), 23 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Das Heerwesen des makedonischen Reiches vom Beginn der Herrschaft Philipps II. bis zur Schlacht von Issos unter Alexander wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit systematisch erfasst und nachvollzogen.

Es wird dabei nach den Waffengattung Infanterie und Kavallerie getrennt, zu denen jeweils ein Überblick über Ausbildung, Ausrüstung, Zusammensetzung und Aufgabenbereiche gegeben.

Ziel ist es, eine Zusammenstellung der wesentlichen Strukturen und prägenden Elemente innerhalb der makedonischen Streitkräfte zu geben, um einen ersten Einstieg in die Thematik zu ermöglichen.

This well-documented learn of the Roman military offers a very important reduction to realizing the Roman Empire in financial, social and political phrases. utilising various examples, Brian Campbell explores the advance of the Roman military and the growth of the Roman Empire from 31 BC-280 AD.
When Augustus verified an everlasting, expert military, this implied a job for the Emperor as an army chief. Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome examines this own organization among military and emperor, and argues that the Emperor's place as commander remained a lot a similar for the subsequent two hundred years.

A mosquito-infested and swampy undeniable mendacity north of the town partitions, Rome's Campus Martius, or box of Mars, used to be used for a lot of the interval of the Republic as an army education flooring and as a website for celebratory rituals and coffee political assemblies. at the start punctuated with temples vowed through successful generals, through the imperial period it turned full of amazing baths, theaters, porticoes, aqueducts, and different buildings - lots of that have been architectural firsts for the capitol. This e-book explores the myriad components that contributed to the transformation of the Campus Martius from an sometimes visited area to a crowded middle of day-by-day job. It offers a case research of the repurposing of city panorama within the Roman international and explores how current topographical gains that healthy good with the Republic's wishes eventually attracted structure that ceaselessly remodeled these beneficial properties yet nonetheless resonated with the area's unique army and ceremonial traditions.