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| Author | : Brent D. Shaw |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Here is a brand new picture word book illustrated by Val Biro for childrenwho are just learning (or starting out) to read and write. Over 500 words whichchildren encounter are listed in alphabetical order. Each word is accompanied bya phrase to show usage and by a lively illustration to express meaning. Aspecial picture section at the back on numbers, colours, festivals, fairytalecharacters, will help children with their own writing at school, and an extendedword list will help them with spelling. A first book of words for children toenjoy!
| Author | : Brent D. Shaw |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2024-10-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1040231608 |
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' are followed by ones that detail aspects of interactions between nomad and sedentarist communities in the African provinces. The book concludes with two studies on African christianity. In all of these, special attention is given to the indigenous institutions, economies and beliefs that informed the confrontation between 'African' and 'Roman'. The studies in general argue for a strongly 'interactionist' approach to historians' reconstruction of the history of the period and the region - a perspective that would emphasise the continuous conflict between the two world of African and Roman.
| Author | : David E. Wilhite |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2011-06-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110926261 |
Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian’s writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two, denying any “essential” Roman or African identity. Thereafter, samples from Tertullian’s writings serve to illustrate comparisons of his own identities and the identities of his rhetorical opponents. The overall study finds Tertullian’s identities to be manifold, complex and discursive. Additionally, his writings are understood to reflect antagonism toward Romans, including Christian Romans (which is significant for his so-called Montanism), and Romanized Africans. While Tertullian accommodates much from Graeco-Roman literature, laws and customs, he nevertheless retains a strongly stated non-Roman-ness and an African-ity, which is highlighted in the present monograph.
| Author | : Dr. David Cherry |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780198152354 |
Analysing the cultural, social, and economic consequences of the Roman occupation of North Africa (c.50 BC-AD 250), this book offers a fresh look at the development and purpose of the north African frontier-system.
| Author | : Leslie Dossey |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520254392 |
This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the gap between the rustici and the urbani, creating a consumer revolution of sorts among the peasants. This book's postcolonial perspective points to the empowerment of the North African peasants and gives voice to lower social classes across the Roman world.
| Author | : Katherine E. Hoffman |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Africa, North |
| ISBN | : 0253354803 |
Berbers and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social, and cultural attention in North Africa, Europe, and the United States. Berber groups have peacefully yet persistently laid claim to ownership over broad areas of creativity in the arts, politics, literature, education, and national memory. The contributors to this volume present some of the best new thinking in the emerging field of Berber studies, offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights. The scope, depth, and multidisciplinary approach will engage specialists on the Maghrib as well as students of ethnicity, social and political change, and cultural innovation.
| Author | : David E. Wilhite |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2017-07-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1135121419 |
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its inception to its eventual disappearance. Well-known writers such as Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine are studied in light of their African identity, and this tradition is explored in all its various expressions. This book is ideal for all students of African Christianity and also a key introduction for anyone wanting to know more about the history, religion, and philosophy of these early influential Christians whose impact has extended far beyond the African landscape.
| Author | : Howard-Brook, Wes |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 555 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1608336581 |
Through a study of the early church, this book shows how Christianity in effect opted for the religion of empire, shifting the emphasis of Jesus's prophetic message from transforming the world to the aim of saving one's soul.
| Author | : Roger S. Bagnall |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780754659068 |
This second collection by Roger Bagnall brings together a further two dozen of his studies, this time covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, published over the last thirty years. Many of the articles deal with issues of historical and papyrological method: the restoration of papyrus texts, the direction of archaeological work in Egypt, economic models for Roman Egypt, the usefulness of postcolonial theory, and approaches to the defective literary tradition for the Library of Alexandria. Others concentrate on particular bodies of evidence, ranging from inscriptions to ascetic literature, from registers to women's letters.
| Author | : R. Bruce Hitchner |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2022-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1119072085 |
Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE). Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.
