The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700
CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western …

Il ponderoso libro di Peter Riedlberger (di seguito: R.) costituisce la pubblicazione della sua
tesi di dottorato in diritto romano svolta presso la Eberhard Karls Universität di Tübingen e …

During the fourth century ad, theological controversy divided Christian communities
throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. At stake was not only the truth about God …

Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the
development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world …

In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the
attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for …

The social values of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity often contrasted with the
modest backgrounds of their religion's founders-the apostles-and the virtues they …

Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes.
Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most …

Summary The Greco‐Roman tradition of history writing proved immensely durable. From the
third to the seventh centuries Herodotus and Thucydides, Sallust and Livy, were still being …

From the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of
Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future …

Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his struggle with, and triumph over,'Arian'heresy.
Yet, almost all of the evidence comes from Ambrose's own writings, and from pious …