Sex in Antiquity, Masterson, Mark

Автор: Stasavage David
Название: The Decline and Rise of Democracy
ISBN: 0691177465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691177465
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A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the future

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer--democratic practices were present in many places, at many other times, from the Americas before European conquest, to ancient Mesopotamia, to precolonial Africa. Delving into the prevalence of early democracy throughout the world, David Stasavage makes the case that understanding how and where these democracies flourished--and when and why they declined--can provide crucial information not just about the history of governance, but about the ways modern democracies work and where they could manifest in the future.

Drawing from examples spanning several millennia, Stasavage first considers why states developed either democratic or autocratic styles of governance and argues that early democracy tended to develop in small places with a weak state and, counterintuitively, simple technologies. When central state institutions (such as a tax bureaucracy) were absent--as in medieval Europe--rulers needed consent from their populace to govern. When central institutions were strong--as in China or the Middle East--consent was less necessary and autocracy more likely. He then explores the transition from early to modern democracy, which first took shape in England and then the United States, illustrating that modern democracy arose as an effort to combine popular control with a strong state over a large territory. Democracy has been an experiment that has unfolded over time and across the world--and its transformation is ongoing.

Amidst rising democratic anxieties, The Decline and Rise of Democracy widens the historical lens on the growth of political institutions and offers surprising lessons for all who care about governance.

Автор: Cooper Kate, Wood Jamie
Название: Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds
ISBN: 1108742696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108742696
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Описание: Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate historians, as well as to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in religion, law, and the family.

Название: Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453
ISBN: 1138270369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138270367
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Описание: The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political, ethnic and religious mosaic, made up of Frankish lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent research in the relevant fields in order to provide a holistic interpretation of this world of extreme fragmentation.

Eight stimulating papers explore various factors that defined contact and conflict between Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, highlighting common themes that run through this period and evaluating the changes that occurred over time. Particular emphasis is given on the crusades and the way they affected interaction in the area. Although the impact of the crusades on Byzantine history leading up to 1204 has been extensively examined in the past, there has been little research on the way crusading was implemented in Greece and the Aegean after that point.

Far from being limited to crusading per se, however, the papers put it into its wider context and examine other aspects of contact, such as trade, interfaith relations, and geographical exploration.

Автор: Janet H. Tulloch
Название: A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity
ISBN: 1350009180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350009189
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women's history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000CE. This time period includes women's participation in Greek and Roman civilization, and the Christianization of the Roman Empire up to Late Antiquity. Key issues include the impact of changing cultural forces and discourses on female autonomy and agency, women's relationship to public and religious circles of power, and women's status in domestic and public space.

A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on female sexual practices, literacy, education and work, medical treatments and authority, ritual office and superstitious practices, cultural transitions and representation, and differences between ideology and actual social practices in identifying women's use of public and private space.

Автор: Julen Etxabe
Название: A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity
ISBN: 1350368261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350368262
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: How should we talk about “the law” in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space? From the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BCE) to Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis (529-534 CE), A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity draws upon legal texts and non-textual forms (such as vase-painting, sculpture, and architecture) to uncover the diverse and rich legal traditions of societies ranging from the Ancient Near Eastern cities of Assyria and Babylon in Mesopotamia to the Ancient Israelites, and from Ancient Greece to Rome of the Archaic and Classical Periods. With a wealth of textual and visual sources, A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

Автор: Dabrowa Edward
Название: Cyprus, Crete, and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
ISBN: 8323342369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788323342366
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Electrum - Journal of Ancient History has been published since 1997 by the Department of Ancient History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as a collection of papers and monographs. In 2010 it starts as journal with one monographic issue per year. Journal publishes scholarly papers embodying studies in history and culture of Greece, Rome and Near East from the beginning of the First Millennium BC to about AD 400. Contributions are written in English, German, French and Italian. The journal publishes books reviews.

Автор: Tomas Hagg, Philip Rousseau
Название: Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity : 31
ISBN: 0520223888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520223882
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Описание: This text discusses the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period between AD 250 and AD 450. These essays show how literary genres focusing on individual lives help to reveal this historical process.

Автор: Unwin Naomi Carless
Название: Caria and Crete in Antiquity
ISBN: 1316645428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316645420
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Описание: Mythologies shaped identities; this book examines what regional mythologies reveal about the social and cultural orientation of Caria in antiquity. Although the Carians were an Anatolian people, their integration into the mythological framework of the Greek world reveals that interaction with the Aegean was a fundamental aspect of their history.

Автор: Arash Zeini
Название: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity: The Pahlavi version of the Yasna Hapta?h?iti
ISBN: 1474442897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474442893
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand`s study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.

Автор: Deliyannis
Название: Ravenna in Late Antiquity
ISBN: 110761290X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107612907
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book provides a comprehensive survey of Ravenna`s history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works. A synthesis of the voluminous literature on this topic, this volume provides an English-language entry point for the study of this fascinating city.

Автор: NUTTON
Название: Ancient Medicine
ISBN: 0415520959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415520959
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Описание: The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition improves upon the last by including the key discoveries since the first edition, especially from the important texts from recent papyri finds.

Название: Human mobility and technological transfer in the prehistoric mediterranean
ISBN: 1316509044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316509043
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Описание: This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory. It will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists, as this region has been such a crucial theatre for exploring questions of mobility in archaeology generally.