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Shakespeare, the Orient, and the critics by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Orientalism and the reversal of stereotypes -- The Oriental framework of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare's humanism: Hamlet, King Lear, and sufism -- Shakespeare and the Arabian nights -- Shakespeare and money -- Shakespeare's Roman world -- Method in the madness: success and failure of early Hamlet criticism.…”
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The school of Libanius in late antique Antioch by Cribiore, Raffaella

Table of Contents: “…Libanius and rhetoric in Antioch -- Schools and Sophists in the Roman East -- The network -- Admission and evaluation -- Teaching the logoi -- The long and the short paths to rhetoric -- After rhetoric -- Conclusion : words and silence -- Appendix 1 : the dossiers of students -- Appendix 2 : length of students' attendance.…”
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When the church was a family : recapturing Jesus' vision for authentic Christian community / by Hellerman, Joseph H., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The group comes first -- Family in the New Testament world -- Jesus' new group -- The churches of Paul -- The church in the Roman world -- Salvation as a community-creating event -- Life together in the family of God -- Decision making in the family of God -- Leadership in the family of God.…”

Witch hunts in the western world persecution and punishment from the inquisition through the Salem trials / by Pavlac, Brian Alexander, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the witch hunts -- Medieval origins of the witch hunts -- Witch hunting in the Holy Roman Empire -- The witch hunts in France -- Witch hunting in the British realms -- Witch hunting in southern Europe -- Witch hunting in northern and eastern Europe -- Beyond the witch hunts.…”
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Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose : From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription / by Sciarrino, Enrica, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Situating the beginnings of Latin prose -- Under the Roman sun : poets, rulers, translations, and power -- Conflicting scenarios : traffic in others and others' things -- Inventing Latin prose : Cato the Censor and the formation of a new aristocracy -- Power differentials in writing : texts and authority.…”
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Aspiring saints pretense of holiness, Inquisition, and gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750 / by Schutte, Anne Jacobson

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Twelve true stories? -- The Roman Inquisition in Venice -- "Little women" and discernment of spirits -- From study to courtroom -- Refashioning "true" holiness -- Sorceresses, witches, and inquisitors -- Healers of the soul -- Healers of the body -- Rings and other things -- Time and space -- Sex and gender -- Pretense?…”
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God interrupted heresy and the European imagination between the world wars / by Lazier, Benjamin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The Gnostic return -- God interrupted: Romans in Weimar -- Overcoming Gnosticism -- After Auschwitz, earth -- Pantheism revisited -- The Pantheism controversy -- From God to nature -- Natural right and Judaism -- Redemption through sin -- Jewish Gnosticism -- Raising Pantheism -- From nihilism to nothingness -- Scholem's golem.…”
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The archaeology of Jerusalem : from the origins to the Ottomans / by Galor, Katharina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history of the research -- Natural and man-made city limits -- The Chalcolithic period and the Bronze Age -- The Iron Age -- The Babylonian and Persian periods -- The Hellenistic period -- The Roman period -- The Byzantine period -- The early Islamic period -- The crusader and Ayyubid periods -- The Mamluk period -- The Ottoman period.…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Wohl, Birgitta, 1934-, Bussiere, Jean

Table of Contents: “…Typological classification -- Phoenico-Punic clay saucer lamps -- Greek and Hellenistic clay lamps -- Roman-period clay lamps -- Metal lamps -- Indices. …”
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Augustine and the cure of souls revising a classical ideal / by Kolbet, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rhetoric and Christian identity in the Roman Empire : sources and method -- A classical ideal -- Classical therapy : its origins, tasks, and methods -- Psychagogy as a cultural ideal -- Psychagogy in its classical form -- Hellenistic refinements -- Cures for the Roman soul -- The psychagogic value of ancient texts -- Revising and recontextualizing classical therapy -- Augustine's early formation -- An ambitious young orator -- Being healed by beautiful words -- Christianizing classical therapy -- Christian philosophy and the cure of soul -- Christ's inner and outer rhetoric -- A new context for classical therapy -- Ordination crisis -- Controversies over the cure of soul -- Signs eliciting love -- Exegetical integration -- Teaching the uninstructed -- Augustine's homiletical practice -- The Christian rhetor -- Continuity amid discontinuity -- Critical skills -- Constructive guidance -- Therapy and society -- The incarnate word and community.…”
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Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors /

Table of Contents: “…Kent Guy -- Thinking through legal pluralism : 'forum shopping' in the later Roman Empire / Caroline Humfress -- Leges nationum and ethnic personality of law in Charlemagne's empire / Peter C.M. …”
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Egyptian cultural icons in Midrash by Ulmer, Rivka

Table of Contents: “…The significance of Egypt in rabbinic texts -- Pharaohs Sheshonq, Necho, and Apries -- The Nile -- Egyptian festivals -- The Osiris myth and Egyptian magic -- History, the Roman emperor, and Egyptian funeral practices -- Alexandria -- Cleopatra, Isis and Serapis -- The Egyptian gods, language, and customs -- The divine eye -- The "finding of Moses" in art and text.…”
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The archaeological imagination by Shanks, Michael

Table of Contents: “…We are all Archaeologists Now -- Debateable Lands -- A Northern Stage -- Relics and Witnesses -- Durat Opus Vatum -- The Antiquary -- Roman Boots -- Itinerary and Natural History -- The Living and the Dead -- Media, Representation, and Mise-en-Scène -- Topology and Time -- Collectors and Conservators -- An Archaeological Narratology -- The Archaeological Imagination.…”
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The Greek tradition in republican thought by Nelson, Eric, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Greek nonsense in More's Utopia -- 2. The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati -- 3. …”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Love Cures Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / by Doggett, Laine E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chretien de Troyes's Cliges -- Tristan and Iseut : beyond a symbolic reading of empirical practice -- Tristan and Iseut : empirical practice amidst competing claims -- Love and medicine in the Roman de silence -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.…”
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Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / by Doggett, Laine E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chretien de Troyes's Cliges -- Tristan and Iseut : beyond a symbolic reading of empirical practice -- Tristan and Iseut : empirical practice amidst competing claims -- Love and medicine in the Roman de silence -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.…”
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Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome by Wessel, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage -- The study of Leo the Great -- Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate -- Structure of the empire in Italy and the West -- Ecclesiastical administration -- Advance of the barbarian kingdoms -- Survey of the life of Leo the Great -- The relationship between Rome and the western churches -- A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul -- Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa -- Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain -- The Vicariate of Illyricum -- Persecution and discipline in Italy -- The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy -- Justice and its human failings -- Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice -- The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy -- Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor -- The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism -- The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion -- Assembling a christology -- Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature -- The quality of Christ's humanity -- Christ as example -- The symmetry of justice -- Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature -- Negotiating with the Imperial Court -- Enlisting the help of the bishops -- Elaboration of the Roman Primacy -- The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome -- The controversy over the 28th Canon -- The focus shifts to Anatolius -- Striving for unity after Chalcedon -- Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court -- The apocrisiarius in Constantinople -- Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius -- The'City of God' unfolds in history -- Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410 -- Anewidea of his Tory emerges.…”
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Ancient Rome from Romulus to Justinian / by Martin, Thomas R., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Roman values, the family, and religion -- From the founding of Rome to the Republic -- War and expansion during the Republic -- The destruction of the Republic -- From Republic to Empire -- From the Julio-Claudians to the Empire's golden age -- From Jesus to crisis in the early Empire -- From persecution to Christianization in the later Empire -- Barbarian migrations and the fates of the Empire.…”
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