Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Late Antiquity & Byzantium
Byzantine Butrint Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9781842171585
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2004
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: 88 b/w pls, 169 b/w illus, 31 col pls, 16 col illus, tbs
Description:
The ancient walled town of Butrint sits at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. In its heyday it could command sea-routes up the Adriatic Sea to the north, across the Mediterranean to the west, and south through the Ionian islands. It also controlled a land-route into the mountainous Balkan interior.
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 462
ISBN: 9781900971010
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2003
Imprint: Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Illustrations: 376 figs, 2 maps
Description:
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d.

Jerome on Virginity

A Commentary on the Libellus de virginitate servanda (Letter 22)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9780905205380
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2003
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Description:
This is a major new commentary on Jerome's Libellus de virginitate servanda , the first in any language to be devoted to this work. Written in Rome in 384, this treatise sets out the manner of life appropriate to a Christian virgin. It takes the form of a letter to a specific person, Eustochium, the teenage daughter of an aristocratic family, encouraging her to persevere in her intention of remaining a virgin.
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781842170441
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time.
The Splendour of Orthodoxy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 526
ISBN: 9789602133996
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2000
Imprint: Ekdotike Athenon
Description:
God, Man, and the world have always been, and are still today, the constant unchanging focus of humankind's spiritual concerns, marking the civilization which the people of the globe have inherited with its own particular features. But it has been Christianity, able to rise above those persistent concerns through the ages, that has revealed the true relationship between God, Man and the world, and has clothed it in the Greek language and with Greek ideas. As we view Christianity's progress in the world, two thousand years after the incarnation of God the Word, we can see very clearly that the holy fountain of all Christendom has always been Orthodoxy.

Rome and Persia at War, 502-532

Format: Paperback
Pages: 301
ISBN: 9780905205489
Pub Date: 18 Oct 1998
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Illustrations: 14 maps and plans
Description:
The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between Rome and Persia, the state of Roman defences in the East, and the chaotic situation in Persia at the end of the 5th century. He then examines the sources and the war itself, including the development of Roman defences, and the attempts by both powers to secure control of the Transcaucasian kingdoms.
Upper Zohar Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 161
ISBN: 9780197270080
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Illustrations: 20 b/w plates, 25 figs
Description:
The final report of excavations undertaken by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. The fort dates from the late fifth to early seventh centuries and was the first such fort to have been fully investigated. It was a small but strategically placed military installation which provided evidence for the late antique military system and the daily life of traders and travellers.
RRP: £52.50

The Fifth-Century Chroniclers

Prosper, Hydatius and the Gallic Chronicle of 452
Format: Paperback
Pages: 329
ISBN: 9780905205465
Pub Date: 12 Dec 1990
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Illustrations: xii + 329 pages
Description:
The fifth century AD has always been a period of intense interest for historians. At the beginning, the Roman Empire looked as impentrable as it had done for centuries, but by 500AD the world had changed beyond recognition. The western emperor had been deposed and the imperial government had lost control of most of Europe.
Biblical Epic and Rhetorical Paraphrase in Late Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 253
ISBN: 9780905205243
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1985
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: x + 253 pages.
Description:
The turning of biblical texts into Latin poetry - biblical paraphrase - was a significant literary activity in late antiquity (third to sixth centuries AD). The most important surviving examples of this form are Juvencus and Sedulius (of the Gospels), Arator (of Acts), "Cyprianus Gallus" (Genesis to Judges), Claudius Marius Victorius (Genesis) and Avitus (parts of Genesis and Exodus). Generally described as biblical epics because they are written in hexameters and imitate pagan epic (especially Virgil), they have also been widely recognized to have drawn for their technique of composition on the rhetorical school exercise of paraphrase.