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SERIES/ Transformation of Classical Heritage
University of California PressThe Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series - A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature (General Editor: Peter Brown)
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Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau
In Philip Rousseau's portrait, Basil's understanding of human nature emerges as his major legacy. 432pp Paper
Price: $32.00
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Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A.P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein
In this study, the authors documents the dynamic social changes that occurred during the 11th and 12th centuries of Byzantium. 309pp Paper
Price: $29.00
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Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity - the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world - by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. 265pp Cloth
Price: $50.00
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Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., by Noel Lenski
Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). 460pp Cloth
Price: $80.00
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Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, Edited by Tomas Hagg and Philip Rousseau
This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period. 317pp Cloth
Price: $60.00
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Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw
Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality - monk, preacher, and pope - in order to elucidate the structure of his thought and present a unified, thematic interpretation of his spiritual concerns. 295pp Paper
Price: $27.00
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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity, Edited by Sebastian Brock and Susan Harvey
Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments and the evolution of the role of the bishop after Christianity went from persecuted cult to state religion. 358pp Cloth
Price: $55.00
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Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, Edited by Sebastian Brock and Susan Harvey
The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. 215pp Paper
Price: $22.00
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