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Book Patronage in Ancient Society

Download or read book Patronage in Ancient Society written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Other. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean. Patronage in Ancient Society was awarded the Croom Helm Ancient History Prize for 1988.

Book PATRONAGE IN ANCIENT SOCIETY   Andrew Wallace Hadrill

Download or read book PATRONAGE IN ANCIENT SOCIETY Andrew Wallace Hadrill written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patronage in Ancient Society

Download or read book Patronage in Ancient Society written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patronage in Ancient Society

Download or read book Patronage in Ancient Society written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patronage in Ancient Society (1989) examines a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing together the interests of ancient historians and sociologists, using ancient societies, and particularly Roman society, as the focus for their studies. In its comparative approach and its historical range this volume constitutes an important contribution to the study of patronage.

Book Commemorating the Dead

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  • Author : Laurie Brink
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2008-12-10
  • ISBN : 3110211572
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Commemorating the Dead written by Laurie Brink and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings.

Book Corruptive Patterns of Patronage in South East Europe

Download or read book Corruptive Patterns of Patronage in South East Europe written by Plamen K. Georgiev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the author’s response to the initial wave of democracy euphoria in South-East Europe, and the obvious regress of it after the “last catch” accession of Bulgaria and Romania (2007) into the European Union family. A core deficit in this respect is the lack of sustainable patronage, relevant to modern societal existence. 1 The bitter fruits of some “dilemma of simultaneity” (Elster 1990), which might have failed to precisely predict the impossibility of transformation in Eastern - rope, has hit the target, as related to the breeds of “impatient capitalisms” that - vour the region. Rising institutional asymmetries, the neglected “rule of law”, the lack of procurement procedures and public control over governmental expenditures as well as illegal schemes of privatisation, tax collecting and the unfair allocation of public funds have shaped mimicries of reforms in crucial spheres of social life. Corruptive patterns of patronages have very much spoiled the outputs of a most p- truded and teasing transition. This undermines significant societal progress. System abuse of civic rights, conflict of interests, nepotisms, political partisanship, int- weaving of institutions with organized criminality threaten to deviate the region from the general aims of democratic existence and modern societal advance.

Book Benefaction and Patronage in Leadership

Download or read book Benefaction and Patronage in Leadership written by Nathan Nzyoka Joshua and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, many have come to view benefaction and patronage in a negative light, largely due to the increasingly immoral motives of those involved in systems that can be exploitative or corrupt. Dr Nathan Joshua provides a counter to this perception and instead draws attention to the goodness of godly benefaction and patronage from an African Christian perspective. Dr Joshua gives a detailed historical analysis of the Pastoral Epistles in the social context of benefaction and patronage in the first century AD, while offering a comparative study on how to carefully apply the values of benefaction and patronage in light of Paul’s perspective in the Pastoral Epistles, in Christian life and leadership. This is a valuable resource addressing the need for leadership with integrity, and challenging the negative outlook surrounding benefaction and patronage today.

Book The Economy of Friends

Download or read book The Economy of Friends written by Koenraad Verboven and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire

Download or read book Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire written by Richard P. Saller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of patronage in the early Empire.

Book The Offering of the Gentiles

Download or read book The Offering of the Gentiles written by David J. Downs and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monetary fund that the apostle Paul organized among his Gentile congregations for the Jewish-Christian community in Jerusalem was clearly an important endeavor to Paul; discussion of it occupies several prominent passages in his letters. In this book David Downs carefully investigates that offering from historical, sociocultural, and theological standpoints. Downs first pieces together a chronological account of Paul's fund-raising efforts on behalf of the Jerusalem church, based primarily on information from the Pauline epistles. He then examines the sociocultural context of the collection, including gift-giving practices in the ancient Mediterranean world relating to benefaction and care for the poor. Finally, Downs explores how Paul framed this contribution rhetorically as a religious offering consecrated to God.

Book Patronage and Community in Medieval China

Download or read book Patronage and Community in Medieval China written by Andrew Chittick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and invites readers to reevaluate their understanding of a critical period in Chinese history. Drawing on poetry, local history, archaeology, and Buddhist materials, as well as more traditional historical sources, Andrew Chittick explores the culture and interrelationships of the leading figures of the Xiangyang region (in the north of modern Hubei province) in the centuries leading up to the Sui unification. Using the model of patron-client relations to characterize the interactions between local men and representatives of the southern court at Jiankang, the book emphasizes the way in which these interactions were shaped by personal ties and cultural and status differences. The result is a compelling explanation for the shifting, unstable, and violent nature of the political and military system of the southern dynasties. Offering a wider perspective which considers the social world beyond the capital elite, the book challenges earlier conceptions of medieval society as "aristocratic" and rooted in family lineage and officeholding. Andrew Chittick is E. Leslie Peter Associate Professor of East Asian Humanities at Eckerd College.

Book Paul and Patronage

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  • Author : Joshua Rice
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2013-07-22
  • ISBN : 1620325578
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Paul and Patronage written by Joshua Rice and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how leadership and authority functioned in the Pauline church remains one of the most polarizing issues in New Testament scholarship today. On the one side are egalitarian and counterimperial readings that stake their interpretation of the liberating gospel upon a depiction of the Pauline church as radically countercultural with regard to leadership and authority. On the other side are authoritarian readings that just as easily conceive of Paul as fully embedded within the cultural conceptions and structures of leadership and authority in vogue across the Greco-Roman world. This study employs social-science criticism to construct a model of ancient patronage conventions and power-exchange dynamics in the Greco-Roman world, and this model is then applied to 1 Corinthians. This study finds that when Paul addresses his own apostolic relationship to the Corinthians, he tends toward reinscribing traditional hierarchies, but that when Paul addresses relationships between participants of the Corinthian assembly, he tends toward overturning them.

Book Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco Roman World

Download or read book Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco Roman World written by Rebecca Benefiel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or were reused in subsequent building. This volume looks at another aspect of epigraphic creation – from handwritten messages scratched on wall-plaster to domestic sculptures labeled with texts to displays of official patronage posted in homes: a range of inscriptions appear within the private sphere in the Greco-Roman world. Rarely scrutinized as a discrete epigraphic phenomenon, the incised texts studied in this volume reveal that writing in private spaces was very much a part of the epigraphic culture of the Roman Empire.

Book The Social History of Roman Art

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  • Author : Peter Stewart
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-05-29
  • ISBN : 0521816327
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Social History of Roman Art written by Peter Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the study of ancient Roman art in its social context.

Book I  Claudia

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  • Author : Diana E. E. Kleiner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780894670756
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book I Claudia written by Diana E. E. Kleiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. It concentrates on the evidence provided by portraits, reliefs, wall-paintings, architecture and decorative arts. The catalogue entries describe more than 180 works, and seven essays-by Natalie Kampen, Klaus Fitschen, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Susan Treggiari and others-discuss gender theory, portraits of empresses and princesses, the portrayal of women as goddesses and women's roles in society, the home, literature and artistic patronage.

Book Rome s Cultural Revolution

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  • Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-11-06
  • ISBN : 0521896843
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rome s Cultural Revolution written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original interpretation of the fundamental transformations of Rome's society, culture and identity during the period of its imperial expansion.

Book Ancient History  Key Themes and Approaches

Download or read book Ancient History Key Themes and Approaches written by Neville Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancient historians and other writers on classical antiquity. Overall this book offers an invaluable introduction to the most important ideas, theories and controversies in ancient history, and a thought-provoking survey of the range of views and approaches to the subject.