The Christian Catacombs of Rome

The Christian Catacombs of Rome
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Total Pages : 216
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Synopsis The Christian Catacombs of Rome by : Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai

This volume deals with the Christian catacombs of Rome and presents the current state of research and knowledge concerning these extraordinary monuments that provide the most tangible and eloquent testimony of early Christianity. This volume is intended to represent the official publication on the Christian catacombs of Rome, prepared directly by members of the Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra. Through association with this commission, it has been possible to publish the most recent and up to date graphic and photographic documentation of the excavations and restorations carried out in the last few years in preparation for the Great Jubilee Year of 2000. It should be a useful and valuable didactic tool for visiting the catacombs of Rome, that, as the Holy Father has noted on numerous occasions, represent manditory destinations for all the pilgrims who will come to Rome in the year 2000 from all over the world. - Introduction.

The Archaeology of Rome: The Catacombs

The Archaeology of Rome: The Catacombs
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Total Pages : 428
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Synopsis The Archaeology of Rome: The Catacombs by : John Henry Parker

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 647
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ISBN-10 : 9780521896290
ISBN-13 : 0521896290
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Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome by : Paul Erdkamp

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.

The Archaeology of Rome

The Archaeology of Rome
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Total Pages : 452
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Synopsis The Archaeology of Rome by : John Henry Parker

Sarcophagi from the Jewish Catacombs of Ancient Rome

Sarcophagi from the Jewish Catacombs of Ancient Rome
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Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : 3515057730
ISBN-13 : 9783515057738
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Synopsis Sarcophagi from the Jewish Catacombs of Ancient Rome by : Adia Konikoff

This comprehensive inventory of all known sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome, is the first specialized treatment of this subject in monograph form. It describes and analyses each sarcophagus and provides full reference material which it critically examines. This work thus fills a lacuna in the literature on this field, which has up to now been confined to the treatment of early Christian and pagan sarcophagi of the period. �We have here a complete overview of the Jewish sarcophagi of ancient Rome, all of them illustrated by photographs and provided with extensive bibliographies. This work thus fills a lacuna in the literature on this field.� Journal for the Study of Judaism �Until this book, however, no one has attempted to assemble all of the Jewish sarcophagi separately in one place and to provide relevant information in the form of a well-ordered catalogue. For this reason, Konikoff's book provides a welcome resource for anyone interested in the material evidence of ancient Judaism and forms a good beginning for study of the sarcophagi, especially from a bibliographic point of view.� Gnomon .

Christianity in Ancient Rome

Christianity in Ancient Rome
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9780567032508
ISBN-13 : 0567032507
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Synopsis Christianity in Ancient Rome by : Bernard Green

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The Archaeology of Rome

The Archaeology of Rome
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Total Pages : 362
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Synopsis The Archaeology of Rome by : Parker (John Henry)

The Bone Gatherers

The Bone Gatherers
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9780807013182
ISBN-13 : 0807013188
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Synopsis The Bone Gatherers by : Nicola Denzey

The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels to the Pietà, we are accustomed to thinking of women as natural mourners, caring for the body in all its fragility and expressing our deepest sorrow. But to think of women bone gatherers merely as mourners of the dead is to limit their capacity to stand for something more significant. In fact, Denzey argues that the bone gatherers are the mythic counterparts of historical women of substance and means-women who, like their pagan sisters, devoted their lives and financial resources to the things that mattered most to them: their families, their marriages, and their religion. We find their sometimes splendid burial chambers in the catacombs of Rome, but until Denzey began her research for The Bone Gatherers, the monuments left to memorialize these women and their contributions to the Church went largely unexamined. The Bone Gatherers introduces us to once-powerful women who had, until recently, been lost to history—from the sorrowing mothers and ghastly brides of pagan Rome to the child martyrs and women sponsors who shaped early Christianity. It was often only in death that ancient women became visible—through the buildings, burial sites, and art constructed in their memory—and Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with ancient texts, to resurrect the lives of several fourth-century women. Surprisingly, she finds that representations of aristocratic Roman Christian women show a shift in the value and significance of womanhood over the fourth century: once esteemed as powerful leaders or patrons, women came to be revered (in an increasingly male-dominated church) only as virgins or martyrs—figureheads for sexual purity. These depictions belie a power struggle between the sexes within early Christianity, waged via the Church's creation and manipulation of collective memory and subtly shifting perceptions of women and femaleness in the process of Christianization. The Bone Gatherers is at once a primer on how to "read" ancient art and the story of a struggle that has had long-lasting implications for the role of women in the Church.

The Jews in Late Ancient Rome

The Jews in Late Ancient Rome
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9789004493599
ISBN-13 : 900449359X
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Synopsis The Jews in Late Ancient Rome by : L.V. Rutgers

It was long believed that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. This book offers a refutation of this thesis. It focuses on the Jewish community in third and fourth-century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger, non-Jewish world that surrounded it. Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome are examined from various angles, and compared to pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. The author has shown great comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining this epigraphic evidence. He also discusses the enigmatic legal treatise called the Collatio. This volume proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied. As such, it is an important and useful addition to the literature on Roman Jewry in the middle Empire.