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The article is part of the volume “Krieg und Christentum – Religiöse Gewalttheorien in der Kriegserfahrung des Westens“ edited by Andreas Holzem
“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.
Markus Beyeler devoted the book to the Roman system of largitiones and examines the different occasions, groups, forms, and production of the largitiones.
The book under discussion was published in 2021 in the Was bedeutet das alles? series by Reclam. It is the extended version of an essay that Reinold Schmücker, who teaches Philosophy at the University of Münster, published already in 2000 in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
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 role of geographical understanding in ancient and early medieval time and its connections to historical understanding is an important focus of this work.
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 work, Havener undertakes the task of examining the way in which the Roman emperor Augustus was represented as a successful military leader.
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.
Eric Burkharts dissertation aims to challenge the view on the crusade politics of the late medieval dukes of Burgundry (1363-1477).
In his monograph Krieg in der Oper, Dennis Roth discusses the occurrence of war-related topics and motives in opera.
Holzem argues that the assumption of a general violence-promoting tendency of the monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), is too short-sighted
The volume Krieg und Christentum, edited by Andreas Holzem, offers numerous articles concerning the history of Christian war experience.
In his book „Krieg und Kunst im antiken Griechenland und Rom“ Tonio Hölscher examines how the war was depicted in Greek and Roman antiquity.
This standard work of medieval cultures of war covers numerous aspects of medieval warfare and highlights connections between various regions and eras.