Author : Cosmas Indicopleustes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1108012957
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 1107020883
New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.
Author : Richard Krautheimer
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520060340
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN :
Author : Rodney Aist
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
The Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem: The Evidence of Willibald of Eichstatt (700-787 CE) is an analysis of Willibald's description of Jerusalem for the year 724-6, as contained in Hugeburc's Vita Willibaldi, a text composed in Heidenheim (Germany) in 778. The work makes a fresh examination of the Christian landscape of Early Islamic Jerusalem, while describing various aspects of the Byzantine and Crusader city. Willibald's account of the Holy City includes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of Holy Sion, the pool of Bethesda, the Church of St Mary, the Church of the Agony and the Church of the Ascension. Particular attention is given to the monument of the Miraculous Healing (the legend of the Holy Cross), the portico of Solomon, the Jephonias Monument (the Dormition of Mary) and the Jerusalem circuit. At the same time, the work explores the religious imagination of Willibald, including his perceptions of the holy sites, his image of Jerusalem and his understanding of the Christian life. Willibald's image of the city as a far and distant place is supported by his attention to personal hardships and to his interactions with the 'pagan Saracens', while embedded within the tales of his oriental travels is his vision of the Christian life - whereas Willibald viewed the earthly life as a laborious journey, the Christian life was one of faithful perseverance. The work makes a significant contribution to two fields of study: the commemorative topography of Jerusalem and the Anglo-Saxon, or Boniface, mission in Germany.
Author : Tsvetelin Stepanov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004409939
The French president Charles de Gaulle spoke of a Europe “from the Atlantic to the Urals”. Europe was spatially formed with these topographic parameters from the late 10th century onwards, with the massive Christianization of its inhabitants. At that time, however, all three monotheistic religions already had a steady presence there. Could such a macro-space be thought-and-narrated from a macro-perspective, in view of its medieval past? This has already been done through common ʻdenominatorsʻ such as the Migration Period, wars, trade, spread of Christianity. Could it also be seen through a common religious-philosophical and spiritual phenomenon – the Anticipation of the End of the world among Christians, Muslims, and Jews? This book gives a positive answer to the last question.
Author : Linda Woodhead
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199687749
This is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.
Author : Johannes Hahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004131418
Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception in late antiquity. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion seek an appropriate larger perspective on the phenomenon a oetemple-destructiona .
Author : George Hatke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081476066X
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.
Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009080830
Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently: from the seven-day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill uncovers this change in thinking. He explores how it took shape in the literary writing of late antiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studies, and early Christianity alike.
