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Immacolata Eramo proposes a new critical edition of the Rhetorica militaris, the only manual of military rhetorics handed down by tradition, written in the in the second half of the 9th century. Her project aims to establish a critical version of the text based on the entire manuscript tradition known to us by now and to provide the first Italian translation of the manual.
In Between Ravenna and Constantinople, the Slovenian archaeologist Slavko Ciglenečki presents a comprehensive analysis of the profound changes in settlement patterns during Late Antiquity.
Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is the first monograph written by Katherine Shaner, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
At its core, the book espouses an understanding of the concept of slavery taken from Orlando Patterson and Jennifer Glancy, which not only sees the relationship between master and slave as one of total domination of the latter by the former, but also considers the status and experience of a person of unfree status as fundamentally influenced by their gender.
In this book, Sarantis examines the historical and archaeological context of the developments in the Balkan provinces of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Justinian I. (527–565) in a comprehensive and detailed manner. In doing so, he aims to demonstrate that the Balkans were in no way politically or strategically subordinate, as the written sources may suggest.
In his monograph, Jan Prostko-Prostyński contextualises the history of the Heruls against the background of the migration period. The history of the Heruls shows how the development and migration of a military group in this period should always be understood in a wider context of tension between the Eastern Roman and Western Roman Empires. The few reports by ancient authors have received little attention from previous research and only a few publications on this gens have appeared in recent years.
Mihailo Milinković’s monograph deals with early Byzantine settlements on the territory of present-day Serbia and its surroundings. These are the former late Roman provinces of Pannonia Secunda, Dalmatia, Moesia Prima, Dacia Ripensis, Dacia Mediterranea, Dardania and Praevalitana. The chronological focus lies in the 6th and early 7th century.
Jonathan Conant asks the question in his book “Staying Roman”: “what became of the idea of Romanness […] once Roman power collapsed?”
Gandila analyses the contacts between Romans and “barbarian” groups within Byzantine Danube border zone during the 6th–8th centuries.
“Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A Social and Economic Study” covers a broad time frame, beginning with Emperor Augustus in the 1st century and extending into the late 5th century.
Kaegis attempts to reexamine materials in the light of new discoveries about seventh-century Byzantium.
The main goal of the volume is to provide an overview of the development and characteristics of the Roman triumph during the Principate and in Late Antiquity.
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300–900 deals with the cultural history of what the author calls „graphic signs“.
The book under review presents the Byzantine warfare from the end of Justinian’s reign (565) until the capture of Constantinople by the crusaders of Western Europe (1204).
Markus Beyeler devoted the book to the Roman system of largitiones and examines the different occasions, groups, forms, and production of the largitiones.
This work by Yann Le Bohec expands the topic of the Roman army to the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
Michael Zerjadtke’s dissertation deals with the officer of the duces (sg. dux) in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Duces are generally translated as „military leaders”.
Härke deals with the furniture of weapons in early Saxon graves and correlates the accessible archaeological and anthropological data as well as the written sources.
The role of geographical understanding in ancient and early medieval time and its connections to historical understanding is an important focus of this work.
The volume Krieg und Christentum, edited by Andreas Holzem, offers numerous articles concerning the history of Christian war experience.
John F. Shean’s monograph Soldiering for God approaches the topic by giving an analysis of the development of Christianity within the Roman army.
Early Medieval Hagiography attempts to outline the nature of hagiographical narratives, and to describe complexity and diversity of the Early Middle Ages