Late Antique and Early Christian gems

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars...

Abstract This book is concerned with the Christianization of Latin poetry during the turbulent fifth century, a period in which the Roman world experienced barbarian...

Abstract Engraved gems were used by the Greeks as seals and amulets, but were primarily valued as ornaments. Their iconography was drawn from a wide range of moti...

Abstract Known since the Renaissance as the “Christian Cicero,” Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (d. 324 a.d.) was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apol...

This book examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amule...

Abstract While there has been a renewed scholarly interest in paratextual features of early Christian manuscripts, that interest has rarely extended to the size of m...

Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman wo...

This chapter explores the sudden outbreak of ecumenical enthusiasm that swept over the early-1960s Church of England against the backdrop of superpower confrontation. Radical readi...