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Description:: In November 324 CE the Roman emperor Constantine founded a new city soon to become the center of a Christian empire. At its inception, however, …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Falcasantos, Rebecca Stephens (creator); Harvey, Susan (Director); Kraemer, Ross (Reader); Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Late antique Christianity; Religious Competition; Constantinople; Religious Violence; Ritual; Violence--Religious aspects
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This study explores how Early Christian Latin hymns written between the fourth and sixth centuries harnessed the power of song for instruction. I argue that …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: McGill, Robin E (creator); Pucci, Joseph (Director); Harvey, Susan (Reader); Konstan, David (Reader); Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Christian; Hymns; Ritual; Time; Christianity
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: In the face of the vast amounts of scholarly and literary material in the Roman Empire of the second century CE, a loose genre of …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: DiGiulio, Scott J (creator); Bodel, John (Director); Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader); Rojas, Felipe (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Aulus Gellius; Miscellany; Intratextuality; Second Sophistic; Tacitus; Pliny the Younger; Seneca the Younger; Paratextuality; History of the Book; Reading Practice; Second Sophistic movement; Gellius, Aulus; Tacitus, Cornelius; Pliny, the Younger; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: John of Salisbury (c. 1115/1120-1180) is known for his treatises in which he conveyed his ideas about education, society, virtue, and several other topics to …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Lescault, Meghan Catherine (creator); Pucci, Joseph (Advisor); Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Middle Ages; intellectual history; John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, -1180; Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres); Twelfth century
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation explores the dynamic world of Christian pilgrims in the eastern Mediterranean (ca. 400-600 CE) through a landscape archaeological approach, using archaeological evidence as …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Craft, Sarah Elizabeth (creator); Alcock, Susan (Director); Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader); Harvey, Susan (Reader); Rojas, Felipe (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: pilgrimage; early Christianity; Anatolia; landscape; archaeology; networks; movement; connectivity; travel infrastructure
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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