The Christianization of Western Baetica

The Christianization of Western Baetica
Author: Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9048528259

The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture. And in the late medieval period, it was the centre of a rich and powerful state, the Umayyad Caliphate. But the historical sources on the intervening years are limited, and we lack an accurate understanding of the evolution of the region. In recent years, however, archaeological research has begun to fill the gaps, and this book built on more than a decade of fieldwork-provides an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the period.

A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba

A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2023-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004524150

A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba offers a compelling account of Cordoba’s most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city.

Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity

Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity
Author: Carlos Machado
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429763123

This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on areas as diverse as Britain, the Iberian Peninsula, Jordan and the Horn of Africa, this book includes burgeoning fields of study such as lived spaces in the context of ships and seafaring during this period. Chapters investigate the history, function and use of different spaces in their own right and identify the social and historical logic presiding over continuity and/or change. They also explore the fluidity of lived space in both its physical and conceptual dimensions, analysing issues like agency and intentionality as well as meaning and social relations. Space is the fundamental dimension of social life, the arena where it unfolds and the stage where social values and hierarchies are represented; analysis of space allows us to understand history through different means of shaping, occupying and controlling space. Considering Late Antiquity through a spatial perspective offers a complex and stimulating picture of this pivotal period, and this volume provides avenues for the development of further research and discussion in this area. Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity is a fascinating resource for students and scholars interested in space and spatiality in the late antique world, as well as archaeology, classical studies and late antique studies more generally.

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum
Author: Michael J. Kelly
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004450017

In Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum,” the author re-interprets the meaning and “function” of the seventh-century Visigothic law-code, the Liber Iudiciorum within the context of the cooperative competition of history-writing between nodes of power in Seville and Toledo.

The Beginnings of Western Christendom

The Beginnings of Western Christendom
Author: Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2019-01-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532677855

A study of the development of Christianity in the West, showing how the church developed in the different regions, based on literary and archaeological evidence. Appeal is often made in ecumenical discussion between East and West to the standard of the undivided church of the first centuries of the Christian era, but understanding is not helped by the assumption that the divergences between East and West did not seriously arise in this early period. One of the many services rendered by the author is to show that Western Christendom had distinctive features from the beginning, and that it had a unity of “culture” other than that imposed by the Papal See. In his use of recent archaeological studies and of the “apocryphal” New Testament, and in arrangement of the material at his disposal, Elliott-Binns’ history breaks new ground.

The Rise of Christianity

The Rise of Christianity
Author: W. H. C. Frend
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451419528

Traces the early history of the Christian church from Jewish Palestine prior to Christ's birth to the sixth century monastic movement, and explains how Christianity survived under a variety of cultures

The AMAZING SPREAD of CHRISTIANITY

The AMAZING SPREAD of CHRISTIANITY
Author: Lawrence Murray
Publisher: Sts. Jude imPress
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1998-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780972214926

Christianity extracts the incidents of the Apostles in the New Testament and those reported by the Church Fathers and early tradition. Data is used to generate a year by year cross correlation of their activities and missions.

Violence in Ancient Christianity

Violence in Ancient Christianity
Author: Albert Geljon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004274901

Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to competing religious groups. Yet at the same time they testify to their virulent verbal criticism of Jews, heretics and pagans, who could not accept the Christian exclusiveness. After emperor Constantine had turned to Christianity, Christians acquired the opportunity to use violence toward competing groups and pagans, even though they were instructed to love them personally and Jewish-Christian relationships flourished at grass root level. General analyses and case studies demonstrate that the fashionable distinction between intolerant monotheism and tolerant polytheism must be qualified.