Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

Abstract 'Live as domestic a life as possible. Have your child with you all the time. Lie down
an hour after each meal. Have but two hours intellectual life a day. And never touch pen …

In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of
autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside …

This article explores Muslim attitudes towards asceticism in the second/eighth and third/ninth
centuries by examining the famous Prophetic hadith:“Every community has its monasticism …

Robert Couzin's Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study
of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from …

An ambiguity lays at the heart of late antique religious literature, and in particular trans
saints' lives: the celebration of what is ordinarily prohibited in both canon law and imperial …

This dissertation examines the transformation of communities in post-Roman southern Gaul
from 450 to 600 CE It investigates the political end of Rome from local perspectives to …

Unfree people in the Roman world could not legally marry, while they could in the Middle
Ages. This paper explores the marriage of the unfree in the Carolingian empire (750–900 …

Visualizing Christian Marriage in the Roman World By Mark D. Ellison Dissertation Submitted
to the Faculty of the Graduate Schoo Page 1 Visualizing Christian Marriage in the Roman …

One day in fourth-century Roman North Africa, a ceramicist made an image of Eve—a thin
strip of clay about 5–6 cm in length, pressed into a mold to form a relief, which the artist then …