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"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves"--

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Constantine and the senatorial aristocracy : the men and women he could not ignore -- Julian and the pagan tradition on Constantine -- Quintus Aurelius Symmachus in Bauli : literary genres and political projects -- Roman senators and imperial officials at the court of Valentinian I -- The brooms in bloom : the Roman aristocracy and the haruspices -- Ammianus, Phrynichus and ancient historians' self-censorship -- Pagan senators and Christian bishops : the Roman Senate at work (382-384 AD) -- Just before the sack : between political crisis and religious anxiety in Rome -- Saint Valentine and the Symmachi.

"Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book's geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period. Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history, philosophy, and theology"--

Part I. The "vanishing" of Rome -- Who and what is late antiquity? -- When is late antiquity? -- How do we do late antique history? -- Part II. Late antiquity appears -- Power -- Worship -- Social change -- Law and politics -- Urban life -- Community -- Economy -- The household and family -- Ideas and literary culture -- Part III. The illusion of Mediterranean history -- Geography and society -- A choice of directions

Introduction / Linda Jones Hall -- The size of the law : document dimensions and their significance in the imperial administration / R.I.S. Altman -- Ritual, religion, and the law : transformations in architecture under the Tetrarchy / Joanne Mannell Noel -- Justinian's Novels and the law of succession / Charles Pazdernik -- A case study for the transformation of law in late antiquity : the legal protection of churches / Beatrice Caseau -- The church and the duties of the Christian soldier / John F. Shean -- Pragmatic application of proto-canon law : episcopal translation / Mary E. Sommar -- From Alaric to the Arab conquest : Visigothic efforts to achieve Romanitas / Karen Eva Carr -- Duplex ius : conflict and competition between Romano-Byzantine law and folk law in the Balkans / Linda Ellis and Marius Tiberius Alexianu -- Lex burgundionum and Burgundian kings : practices of private legal guarantee (fideiussio) and royal innovation / Dmitri N. Starostine -- Who was Æthelberht's laet? / Lisi Oliver -- Ethnicity, religion, and class in late antique Berytus, city of the Roman law schools / Linda Jones Hall

This book takes up the familiar topic of church reform in the later Middle Ages, but does so in a novel way: by examining the relationship between reform and the domestic lives of parish priests, their female companions, and other members of the priests' households or familia in the fourteenth century. Focusing on northern Italy, including Venice, and drawing on a wide range of archival records, the book challenges traditional characterizations of the late medieval clergy as "corrupt." Instead, it shows priests responding to the regulation of their domestic lives. They responded by carefully shaping written records in which household members appeared, for instance by presenting their sexual partners as servants and their children as apprentices. The book also traces, in many cases for the first time, the life cycle and status of priests' kin and household members, including their female companions, children, mothers, and slaves. In addition, the book explores both the work and material cultures of the clerical household in the decades after the Black Death. Throughout, the author argues that the priest's household was a community with roots in both ecclesiastical and lay society. Approaching the history of church reform through the lens of the clerical household, the book provides a new perspective on the history of the Christian church and domestic life in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance.--

During late antiquity the Roman empire faced serious threats from the peoples to the east and to the north. This book is concerned with the role played by information and intelligence in the empire's relations with these peoples, how well-informed about them the empire was, and how such information was acquired. It deals with an important facet of late Roman history which has not previously received systematic treatment, and does so in a wide-ranging manner which relates the military/diplomatic history to its broader social/cultural and economic context

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Between a Physical and an Imaginary City -- I. Looking Backwards: Ordo Renascendi -- II. The Adventus of Constantius -- III. Between Rome and Athens -- The Artificial Romanitas of Julian -- IV. Between the Altar and the Court -- Symmachus and Claudian in Action -- V. Between Christ and a Roman Place -- The Emergence of Christian Rome in Time and Space -- VI. Between Jerusalem and Babylon -- The Archetype of Rome in the City of God -- Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity -- Bibliography -- Index.