Philip F. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World, Routledge 2017. Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major Read more…
Res Militares is the official newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians (SAMH). It appears twice per year and it is edited by the SAMH Secretary. The latest issue of Res Militares is now availiable: Res Militares, Volume 17, Issue 1, May 2017
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, but Read more…
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, New York 2016. Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the Read more…
Kyle A. Schenkewitz, Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2015. Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, Read more…
Stephen J. Shoemaker, Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion, Yale University Press, New Have & London, 2015. For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, Read more…
T. J. Wray, Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament: Their Enduring Lessons, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 2016. Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament takes readers on a powerful journey through the vast landscape of Roman-occupied Judea during the first century and the genesis of Read more…
Παναγιώτης Καμπάνης, ΦΥΛΑΞ – Τα φυλακτά της ύστερης αρχαιότητας, εκδ. Γράφημα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017. Εθνικοί και χριστιανοί θεωρούσαν τα φυλαχτά ως αντικείμενα προικισμένα με υπερφυσική δύναμη, χάρη στην οποία εξουδετέρωναν όλες τις συμφορές που προκαλούσαν στην ανθρώπινη ζωή οι δαίμονες του κακού. Για να ανακαλύψουμε το βαθύτερο νόημα ενός φυλαχτού Read more…
Κώστας Μπουραζέλης, Οι τρόφιμοι της λύκαινας, Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Αθήνα 2017. Η παράδοση πολιτικού ρεαλισμού και προσαρμοστικότητας της Ρώμης έθετε το imperium πάνω από την κοιτίδα του, την urbs. Η έννοια και η πραγμάτωση του imperium συνέδεσε σε μια νέα ενότητα urbs και orbis, για να θυμηθούμε τη γνωστή Read more…
Pieter d’Hoine and Marije Martijn (ed.), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017. Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official ‘successors’ of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed Read more…