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This collection (Cameron¿s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject as well as Cameron¿s own development as a historian over many decades.

Explores the diverse roles and attitudes to women in ancient societies: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses, and typically as deranged.

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A renowned historian addresses misconceptions about Byzantium, suggests why it is so important to integrate the civilization into wider histories, and lays out why Byzantium should be central to ongoing debates about the relationships between West and East, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and the ancient and medieval periods.

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The development of Christianity during the Byzantine period changed the religious map of Europe in a way that resonates today - this is a concise introduction.

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Prosopography is the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent of computer technology it is now possible to gather and store such information in increasingly sophisticated and searchable databases, which can bring a new dimension to traditional historical research. This book surveys the transition in prosopographical research and demonstrates mutual benefits and complementarity in such studies...

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This is the first book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, and Armenian, as well as Latin traditions"--Provided by publisher.

Averil Cameron refutes an argument by some scholars that Christians did not dialogue after a wall of silence came down in the fifth century AD. Cameron shows that in late antiquity and throughout Byzantium Christians debated and wrote philosophical, literary, and theological dialogues, and she makes a case for their centrality in Greek literature.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Alla civiltà bizantina si guarda oggi con rinnovato interesse: in essa infatti affondano le radici alcune importanti questioni contemporanee, come la definizione geografica e culturale dell'Europa, l'identità dei paesi est-europei, la frattura tra occidente e oriente. Il volume presenta un quadro critico dell'impero bizantino che intende da un lato dare un'immagine della vita dei bizantini, e dall'altro mostrare come esso appartenga in pieno a...

This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.

This latest volume of The Cambridge Ancient History covers the years 337 425, a period not covered in the first edition.

Konnten Christen 'Dialoge führen'?" Mit dieser Frage verknüpft Averil Cameron ein starkes Plädoyer für eine intensivere Auseinandersetzung mit einer Gattung christlicher Literatur, die in der Spätantike eine ungeheure Produktivität entfaltete. Dialoge und Debatten, die sich gegen Häretiker, Juden, Manichäer und später gegen Muslime richteten, führten zu einer neuen Blüte der antiken Dialogform und nicht zu deren Ende, wie häufig gegenteilig be...

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This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the forefront of European historyDeconstructs stereotypes surrounding ByzantiumBeautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

A comprehensive study which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.

In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered an influential part of the broader development of Europe, even though its borders also reached out to the vast territories of Anatolia and the Caucasus, and to the eastern Mediterranean.