H. C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York 2017. Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, Read more…
Linda Zollschan, Rome and Judaea: International Law Relations, 162-100 BCE, Routledge Studies in Ancient History, Routledge, London – New York, 2016. Rome and Judaea explores the nature of Judaea’s first diplomatic mission to Rome during the Maccabean revolt: did it result in a sanctioned treaty or was it founded instead Read more…
Petros Themelis, Maria Spathi, Kyriakos Psaroudakis (ed), Sanctuaries and Cults of Messene: From the pre-classical to the byzantine period, Proceedings of the International Archaeological Congress, Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies, Athens 2017.
Tarmo Toom, (ed.), Augustine in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Augustine in Context assesses the various contexts – historical, literary, cultural, spiritual – in which Augustine lived and worked. The essays, written by an international team of scholars especially for this volume, provide the background against which Augustine’s treatises should Read more…
Open Access Book Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, Jörg Rüpke (ed.), Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire, De Gruyter, Berlin 2017. The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, Read more…
Mu-chou Poo, H. A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals (ed.), Old Society, New Belief: Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries, Oxford University Press, New York 2017. In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: Read more…