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This concise history of how the Christian Church grew between 32 and 380 focuses on the anonymous Christians who formed diverse congregations as they guided their communities through the age of the Apostles, violent martyrdoms, and to the establishment of the Roman Church.

This concise history of how the Christian Church grew between 32 and 380 focuses on the anonymous Christians who formed diverse congregations as they guided their communities through the age of the Apostles, violent martyrdoms, and to the establishment of the Roman Church.

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse.

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse.

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

Originally published in 1991. Covering courtship, disclosure, diversity, and public implications, the essays here discuss topics such as erotic magic, nakedness, physicians¿ attitudes about sex, boy-love, saints and sex, and the politics of sodomy, as they were manifested in medieval Europe and the Middle East.

Originally published in 1990. Well-annotated bibliographical entries cover works on history, religion, medicine, philosophy, law and literature in western Europe from about the third century A.D. through the end of the medieval period. Detailed indexes are also included.

Originally published in 1990. Well-annotated bibliographical entries cover works on history, religion, medicine, philosophy, law and literature in western Europe from about the third century A.D. through the end of the medieval period. Detailed indexes are also included.

Originally published in 1991. Covering courtship, disclosure, diversity, and public implications, the essays here discuss topics such as erotic magic, nakedness, physicians¿ attitudes about sex, boy-love, saints and sex, and the politics of sodomy, as they were manifested in medieval Europe and the Middle East.

Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena.

In Rome¿s Christian Empress, Joyce E. Salisbury brings the captivating story of Rome¿s Christian empress to life. The daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I, Galla Placidia lived at the center of imperial Roman power during the first half of the fifth century. Taken hostage after the fall of Rome to the Goths, she was married to the king and, upon his death, to a Roman general. The rare woman who traveled throughout Italy, Gaul, and Spain, she...

What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? These are the kinds of questions students of history always ask, and it is precisely the answers to these questions that are missing in many reference works. We all spend most of our lives preoccupied with mundane but essential things: food, shelter, families, neighbors, work, play. Our activities rarely rise to the level of greatness or make the headlines, and that was true of ...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The period we know as the Middle Ages, roughly the years 400-1400, saw the formation of ideas and institutions that mark our modern societies. Developments as disparate as the foundation of Islam and the emergence of the middle class occurred during this pivotal millennium. This title explains how this period unfolded in major world regions.

This is an A-Z encyclopedia on women in the ancient world with entries which include: why Cleopatra seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, engulfing the Roman Empire in bloody civil war, the historical evidence that substantiates tales of sexual rites in Babylonian temples, how the Greek women who served the god Apollo at Delphi uttered pronouncements that changed the course of history, and the story of the Amazons that fascinated ancient and...