Late Antiquity & Byzantium Constantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Religious Faith and Imperial Policy Edited by A. Edward Siecienski The Bir Messaouda Basilica Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Contents: Constantine and religious extremism Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage (H.A. Drake); The significance of the Edict of Milan (Noel Lenski); The sources for our sources: By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Eusebius and Lactantius on Constantine in 312-313 This volume charts the (Raymond Van Dam); Constantine in the pagan radical transformation of an memory (Mark Edwards); Writing Constantine inner city neighbourhood in (David Potter) The Eusebian valorization of late antique Carthage which violence and Constantine’s wars for God (George was excavated over a five-year E. Demacopoulos); Constantine the Pious (Peter J. period by a team from the Leithart). University of Cambridge. The 160p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472454133 Hb neighbourhood remained £110.00 primarily a residential one from the second century until The Architecture of the Christian 530s AD when a substantial Holy Land basilica was constructed over Reception from Late Antiquity through the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive the Renaissance modifications were made to the basilica half-a- century later when the structures on the western half By Kathryn Blair Moore of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly Architecture took on a special representational role enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. The Bir associated with the bodily presence of the dominant Messaouda basilica provides important insights into figures of the religion. This study traces and re- the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control interprets the significance of the architecture of the of the city, the development of a new Christian inter- Holy Land within changing religious and political mural urban landscape in the sixth contexts, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. century AD, and the significance 436p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) of the pilgrimage in reinforcing 9781107139084 Hb £74.99 ecclesiastical authority in post- Only Justinianic North Africa. Procopius of Caesarea £41.25 until 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books publication Literary and Historical Interpretations 2018) 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 Edited by Christopher Lillington-Martin & Elodie Turquois This volume offers approaches that shed new light on Procopius’ texts by comparing them with Riot in Alexandria a variety of relevant textual sources. 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Watts reconstructs to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of a riot that erupted in research and to provide discussion of the motives Alexandria in 486 when a group of students and characteristics of city-building and settlement attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly development in Late Antiquity. insulted the students’ teachers, and shows how 300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503555515 Pb £80.00 historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped reactions to the event. 312p b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 9780520294868 Pb £27.95 50 Divine Powers in Late Antiquity The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Edited by Anna Marmadoro & Irini-Fotini Viltanioti Church and its Leadership in Late Divided into two main sections, the first part of this Antiquity volume examines aspects of the notion of divine By Stephen J. Davis power as developed by the four major figures of This study analyses the development of the Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Egyptian papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. Proclus. Part two investigates the notion of divine Stephen J. Davis examines a wide range of evidence- power in early Christian authors, from the New letters, sermons, theological treatises, and church Testament to the Alexandrian school and, further, histories, as well as art, artefacts, and archaeological to the Cappadocian Fathers. The two groups of remains-to discover what the patriarchs did as thinkers share largely the same intellectual and leaders, how their leadership was represented in cultural heritage; they are concerned with the same public discourses, and how those representations fundamental questions; and they often engage in definitively shaped Egyptian Christian identity in more or less public philosophical and theological Late Antiquity. dialogue, directly influencing one another. 272p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2017) 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198767206 Hb £65.00 9789774168345 Pb £20.00 Pagans and Philosophers Tyconius of Carthage The Problem of Paganism from Augustine Exposition of the Apocalypse to Leibniz Edited by Francis X. Gumerlock & David C. Robinson By John Marenbon The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Gryson’s and troubled by the Problem of Paganism, which edition, which reconstructs the work from citations this book identifies and examines for the first time. in early medieval sources, was published in 2011 in How could the wisdom and virtue of the great Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. The present thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact translation of that edition, with introduction and that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? notes, exhibits Tyconius’s unique non-apocalyptic 328p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176086 Pb approach to the Book of Revelation. £19.95 277p (Catholic University of America Press 2017) The Dawn of Christianity 9780813229560 Hb £41.50 People and Gods in a Time of Magic and The Cross Miracles History, Art, and Controversy By Robert C. 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Stroumsa Making Amulets Christian This book explores the history of Christianity in Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts the context of other late antique religions, and in By Theodore de Bruyn particular through the lens of two main types of This volume examines Greek amulets with Christian religion, high and low intensity. The figures of the elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic reflect a the processes whereby a customary practice – the centripetal mode of religiosity that is characterized writing of incantations on amulets – changed in an by high intensity. The other mode of religiosity, increasingly Christian context. It considers how the obviously much more common than the first one, formulation of incantations and amulets changed is centrifugal and irenic, the mode of priests and as the Christian church became the prevailing bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. religious institution in Egypt and shows how 240p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786009 Pb £25.00 incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians. 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199687886 Hb £65.00 Late Antiquity & Byzantium 51 Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Marriage, Sex and Death Power in Late Antiquity and the Early The Family and the Fall of the Roman West Middle Ages By Emma Southon Edited by Ildar H Garipzanov, Caroline Goodson & The political rise of the church in the Late Antique Henry Maguire west, alongside that of the Germanic kingdoms, In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of led to dramatic changes in law, politics, power, and graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and culture. Against the backdrop of that upheaval, monograms and the contexts that facilitated their the family became a vitally important area of dissemination in diverse media. They ask whether focus for cultural struggles related to morality, law, some culturally specific norms and practices of and tradition. This book explores those battles graphic composition and communication can be in order to demonstrate, through the family, the discerned behind the rising corpus of graphic signs intersections between Roman and Christian legal from the fourth to tenth centuries and whether culture, thought, and political power. common features can be found in their production 256p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789462980358 Hb £64.00 and use across various media and contexts.