No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of "decline and fall", as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an "other antiquity", which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a...

Although the paradoxical reality of warfare may elude definition, since antiquity war has been a constitutive element of Western culture; seen from a historical perspective, it gives access to a broad array of tensions between various...

"For Example: Martyrdom and Imitation in Early Christian Texts and Art" von Marco Formisano untersucht die Darstellungen von Märtyrertum und deren Nachahmung in frühchristlichen Texten und Kunstwerken. Das Buch analysiert, wie das...