Controlling contested places: late antique Antioch and the spatial politics of religious controversy 9780520280359, 9780520303379, 9780520957985

Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy 9780520957985

From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in lat

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Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy 978-0520303379

From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in lat

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Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia: Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind 9781463237219

This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Ant

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Spatial and Religious Transformations in the Late Antique Polis: A multi-disciplinary analysis with a case-study of the city of Gerasa 9781407305134, 9781407335001

This work looks at basic questions pertaining to sacred space and applies them to several well documented archaeological

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The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul 9781472519030, 9781472519054, 9781472519061

Christianity in the late antique world was not imposed but embraced, and the laity were not passive members of their rel

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The Contested Countryside: Rural Politics and Land Controversy in Modern Britain 9780755622474, 9781845117153

Life in rural Britain has changed beyond recognition since the beginning of the 20th century. Not only dramatic events s

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An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States 9780812208252

Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public l

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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt 9780520954922

Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. T

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The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine 0520304144, 9780520304147

 Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism a

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