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The Thirteenth Zodiac: The Sign of Arachne
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ISBN: 0583126006 Year: 1977 Publisher: St. Albans, Herts Mayflower Books / Granada Publishing Limited

Silver and society in late antiquity
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ISBN: 0754607283 9780754607281 9781315243115 9781351900065 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge


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Frühchristliche Grabinschriften im Westen des Römischen Reiches : Beiträge zur Internationalen Konferenz "Frühchristliche Grabinschriften im Westen des Römischen Reiches", Trier, 13.-15. Juni 2013
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ISSN: 18697763 ISBN: 9783898901987 389890198X Year: 2015 Volume: 3 Publisher: Trier : Kliomedia,


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Before and after Muhammad : the first millennium refocused
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ISBN: 0691158533 1306081785 1400848164 9780691158532 0691168407 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth century. Before and After Muhammad suggests a new way of thinking about the historical relationship between the scriptural monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian history. Garth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium--from Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna--as the proper chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia. Fowden proposes not just a chronological expansion of late Antiquity but also an eastward shift in the geographical frame to embrace Iran. In Before and After Muhammad, Fowden looks at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alongside other important developments in Greek philosophy and Roman law, to reveal how the First Millennium was bound together by diverse exegetical traditions that nurtured communities and often stimulated each other.

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Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Frühmittelalter. --- Islam. --- Islamic civilization. --- Monotheism --- Periodisierung. --- Religion and civilization --- Spätantike. --- History --- Eurasia --- History. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Ancient --- Islamic civilization --- Civilisation médiévale --- Civilisation ancienne --- Religion et civilisation --- Civilisation islamique --- Islamic influences --- Influence islamique --- Religions. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Abbasids. --- Achaemenids. --- Alois Riegl. --- America. --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Asia. --- Baghdad. --- Basra. --- Brethren of Purity. --- Christian Bible. --- Christian Rome. --- Christianity. --- East Rome. --- Edward Gibbon. --- Eurasia. --- Eurasian Hinge. --- Europe. --- First Millennium. --- Greece. --- Greek philosophy. --- Henri Pirenne. --- Ibn Sīnā. --- Iran. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Judaism. --- Justinianic code. --- Latin Europe. --- Manicheism. --- Mazdaism. --- Mediterranean. --- Mountain Arena. --- Muhammad. --- North America. --- Peter Brown. --- Pisa. --- Qur'āan. --- Roman law. --- Tūs. --- Umayyads. --- archaeology. --- architectural history. --- art. --- commonwealths. --- empires. --- exegesis. --- late Antiquity. --- late antique studies. --- monotheism. --- patristic Christianity. --- philosophy. --- rabbinic Judaism. --- salvation. --- translation. --- To 1500 --- Asia --- Europe

On Roman time : the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity
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ISBN: 1282355457 0520909100 9786612355455 0585139881 9780520909106 9780585139883 0520065662 9780520065666 Year: 1990 Volume: 17 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western Empire. In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were still very much alive in the mid-fourth century. Going beyond this analysis of precedents and genre, Salzman also studies the Calendar of 354 as a reflection of the world that produced and used it. Her work reveals the continuing importance of pagan festivals and cults in the Christian era and highlights the rise of a respectable aristocratic Christianity that combined pagan and Christian practices. Salzman stresses the key role of the Christian emperors and imperial institutions in supporting pagan rituals. Such policies of accommodation and assimilation resulted in a gradual and relatively peaceful transformation of Rome from a pagan to a Christian capital.

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