This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East.
Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred …

This book presents new insights into the dynamics of the relationship between governors
and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire, with a focus on the provincial …

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www. luminosoa.
org. What is the purpose of a church? Who owns a church? Mary K. Farag persuasively …

Damnatio memoriae, the ill-defined group of processes that we often now refer to by the term
'memory sanctions', is generally thought of in wholly negative terms. It is imagined as a …

The article takes as its point of departure recent work (Frischer forthcoming) critiquing the
theory of Edmund Buchner about the relationship of the gnomonical instrument known as …

The obelisk that stands today in the Piazza Montecitorio in Rome, placed there by Pope Pius
VI in 1792, had two previous “lives.” Quarried in Aswan, Egypt, it was brought down the Nile …

While bishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom organized psalm-singing processions
that were to transform the city's civic spaces and colonnaded streets into" churches." By …

While the surviving imperial churches of sixth-century Constantinople represent some of the
most innovative and imposing examples of Byzantine architecture, a large, sumptuous …

The emperor Theodosius I (AD 379–395) was one of the most remarkable figures of the late
antique period. In the face of religious schism, political turmoil, and barbarian threats he …

This study presents a new reading of Pacatus' treatment of the usurper Magnus Maximus in
the closing section of his panegyric of Theodosius. It begins by setting Pacatus' panegyric …