Pagan and Christian Egypt

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...

An account of Egypt's foreign policy decline following the Arab Uprisings, explaining the causes, consequences, and dynamics of this decline. Egypt, traditionally...

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

For centuries, historians have claimed that Rogationtide is a Christianized adaptation of a pagan festival, the Ambarvalia. This chapter scrutinizes Roman sources for the Ambarvali...

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 re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity—the phenomena traditionally termed “Christianization”; it re-cent...

The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked w...