Download or read book The Civilization of Rome written by Pierre Grimal and published by London : G. Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1963 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, culture and daily life of Ancient Rome. Contains more than 200 pictures, as well as plans, a chronological table, and a historical and biographical dictionary which serves an index.
Download or read book Women in Greece and Rome written by Verena Paul-Zinserling and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the records of an age dominated by masculine values and characterized by the almost continuous exercise of the masculine arts of war, the author has undertaken the delicate task of piecing together the public and private lives of women ... The author recounts stories drawn from legend and from life: of goddesses, Homeric heroines, empresses, poetesses, wives of the famous, mothers, sisters, concubines. She searches out the other class of women, ignored by history--the obscure, the dispossesses, the slaves upon who exploitation the luxuries of the powerful depended. Describing the network of laws and sanctions that deprived women of the ancient world of the means to independent action, Dr. Zinserling goes on to explore the social attitudes and family relationships that reinforced the legal codes. Finally, she discusses the spheres of activity to which woman was typically confined: home, family, matrimony, child-rearing, religious observances, beauty culture, and fashion. Supplementing her analyses with selections from poets, philosophers, and statesmen of the age, and with homely descriptions from other contemporary sources, the author presents a comprehensive picture. Many of the examples of painting and sculpture that she has chosen to illustrate the book are details of larger works--intimate portraits that invite the viewer into the lives of their subjects.-- Publisher description.
Download or read book Italian Journal of Sociology written by Augusto Bosco and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Property of Married Women and the Law of Divorce written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photoreproduction of various pamphlets, statutes, newspaper items, etc., originally compiled by Monckton Milnes ca. 1858.
Download or read book The World of Gregory of Tours written by Mitchell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating series of essays, the life, works and world of Gregory of Tours are evaluated. This sixth-century bishop is probably best known as writer of the History of the Franks. The collection of essays makes a valuable contribution to the flourishing field of Gregory of Tours studies. Though the contributors take full account of his political dimension, they also see Gregory in his cultural context. In addition to being representative of the age in which he lived, Gregory is presented here as an exceptional man. Furthermore, the contributors offer an up-to-date assessment of Merovingian culture, history and religion. Themes include: the urban history of Tours and the Merovingian world; ideas, politics and international contacts in the Merovingian world; the Merovingian church; Gregory's hagiographic writings; the Histories; and the manuscript tradition. Contributors include: Bernard S. Bachrach, Peter Brown, John J. Contreni, S. Fanning, Nancy Gauthier, Walter Goffart, Guy Halsall, Yitzak Hen, Conrad Leyser, Felice Lifshitz, Jo Ann McNamara, Kathleen Mitchell, William Monroe, Janet L. Nelson, Giselle de Nie, Thomas F.X. Noble, Patrick Périn, Walther Pohl, E.M. Rose, B.H. Rosenwein, Danuta Shanzer, Julia M.H. Smith, Ian Wood, andBarbara Yorke.
Download or read book Les savoirs d Apul e written by Emmanuel Plantade and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre remet au premier plan la question des savoirs d’Apulée, actuellement considéré comme un simple sophiste. Les auteurs y envisagent une variété de savoirs pratiques, spirituels et intertextuels que mobilise le Madaurensis dans l’idée qu’ils peuvent aider à éclairer son projet. Ainsi, la polymathia qu’on lui prête pourrait-elle correspondre chez lui à un authentique désir de connaissance et de sagesse, suffisant à justifier le titre de philosophus ? Ne pourrait-on voir le Madaurensis comme un nouvel Ulysse, revenant en Afrique après avoir fait sienne la polytropia du héros d’Homère, et mobilisant les savoirs méditerranéens pour leur donner un nouveau sens ? This book brings back to the fore the array of knowledge that Apuleius, currently considered a mere sophist, used to approach. In an attempt to help enlighten his project, the authors of this volume consider a variety of practical, spiritual and intertextual skills and knowledge mobilized by the Madaurensis, asking whether the polymathia, which is ascribed to him, could correspond to a genuine desire for knowledge and wisdom, and be sufficient to justify the title of philosophus? Could we not see the Madaurensis as a new Ulysses, returning to Africa after having adopted the polytropia of Homer’s hero, and mobilizing Mediterranean knowledge to give it a new meaning?
Download or read book Water Culture in Roman Society written by Dylan Kelby Rogers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a variety of scales and forms, based on climatic and social conditions of different areas. This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.
Download or read book Women in Lebanon written by M. Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
Download or read book Liber Historiae Francorum written by Bernard S. Bachrach and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Philosophy manual a South South perspective written by Chanthalangsy, Phinith and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of Henry James written by Leon Edel and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Motherhood Religion and Society in Medieval Europe 400 1400 written by Dr Conrad Leyser and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying … ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so … but philosophers lead a very different life … So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption. Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles, fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history, beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame, three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to the central topic.
Download or read book Women Gender and Language in Morocco written by Fatima Sadiqi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.
Download or read book Virtues for the People written by Geert Roskam and published by Universitaire Pers Leuven. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions.
