Sentences with phrase «latest roman»

One could hardly turn on a news station without an extended treatment of the «candidates» for the job, or the latest Roman reports.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

Given the limitations on communication during the late Roman era, and the widespread illiteracy, it's not surprising that stories were exaggerated, embellished, or made up of the whole cloth by Christian enthusiasts.

The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman Empire.

It is concerned with the extraordinary energy and vitality of scholarship on the later Roman Empire over the last generation and its significance for understanding the world Augustine inhabited.

Their narrators struggle with a variety of worldly lures and intellectual fashions not unlike those with which Augustine wrestled in the vibrant world of the late Roman empire but that were unknown to those going through their daily rounds within the cloister walls of medieval Europe.

That's why the Late Roman Emperors got baptized on their death beds.

My icon over there is the Venerable Bede sitting at his desk recording the history of the Church in all of its weirdness and hope during the late Roman Empire.

The movement from «cry» to «justice» conveyed a ~ ethos of justice — firm, paternal and mercifully swift — that appealed to many humble late Roman people who found themselves living in a postclassical world in which Old Testament conditions reigned.

Review: Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Peter Brown, University Press of New England, 176 pp., also in paperback.

They rose to leadership in late Roman society by bringing the poor into ever - sharper focus.»

The synagogue - dating to the fourth and fifth centuries in both the Talmudic and late Roman periods - is in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in the country's Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said.

In a book - length interview called God Is More Beautiful Than the Devil, the late Roman exorcist and author Fr.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

was co-opted into the imperialist ideology and social structure of the later Roman empire....

from that page:» As the Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, expanded, it came to include people from a variety of cultures, and religions.

During the Reformation, in spite of the suffering of very large numbers of Protestants and later Roman Catholics, neither the Reformers nor the Roman church turned to the hope of a future millennium.

We all really liked it — it's about a boy who discovers that the Greek gods (and later the Roman ones, too) are actually real and he is the son of one of them.

Josiah Ober's summoning of a time «before liberalism» in Demopolis incorporates that late Roman imperial period, and all else before the sixteenth century.

They all have a «holy of holies»: in the synagogue it is the sacred ark with the Torah scrolls; in the church it is the altar and in the later Roman church the tabernacle; in the mosque it is the prayer niche facing Mecca.

A century and a half later another Roman, Gregory I (reigned 590 - 604), the only Pope to share with Leo I by general consent the title of «Great,» and with Leo I one of several Popes officially regarded as a saint, did a great deal to shape the Roman Catholic Church and to make the Papal see the controlling center of that Church in Western Europe.

He was bishop of Jerusalem when General Ti.tus, later the Roman Emperor Ti.tus Caesar razed it to the ground!

It plagued Europe from the late Roman Empire till the 1920s, and when it arrived in Africa in 1887, 80 per cent of the livestock died — as did much of the human population.

Ottaway acknowledges this, yet for the main periods discussed — early and late Roman, Anglo - Saxon and medieval until about 1350 — he is forced back upon sources covering a diversity of localised interests.

«We may never know the true identity of this new head, but we are continuing to explore the building from which it came to help us improve our understanding of late Roman life at Binchester and the Roman Empire's northern frontier in Northern England.

First year Durham University archaeology student Alex Kirton found the artefact, which measures about 20 cm by 10 cm, in buried late Roman rubbish within what was probably a bath house.

Dr Rebecca Redfern, research osteologist in the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London, said: «This eye opening study has provided us with new and amazing insights into the funerary rituals of late Roman Britain.

«Our research overturns the established historical narrative of conflict on the late Roman frontiers,» said Susanne Hakenbeck of the University of Cambridge and lead author of the study.

A scholarly publication is one in which the content is written by experts in a particular field of study - generally for the purpose of sharing The Populārēs (favouring the people, singular populāris) were a grouping in the late Roman Republic which favoured the cause of the plebeians (the commoners), particularly the urban poor.

Set during the rule of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, Rome: Total War is a real - time tactics and turn - based strategy game that takes place across Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY OBJECTIVES: Describe how the conditions Jews faced in Judaea contributed to the rose of Christianity, Identify the difficulties early Christians experienced in the Roman Empire, and Explain the changes that helped establish Christianity and stabilize the church during the late Roman Empire MAIN GOAL: To understand that the rise of Christianity and its gradual spread across the empire changed the culture of the Romans Time: 1 Class Period (57 mins) LESSON PLAN IN DETAIL: 1.

He snatched up a book he wasn't reading, The Later Roman Empire.

Or like in the late Roman empire.»

That period was during the later Roman Empire.

The legend thus combines features characteristic of traditional folk - literature with others derived ultimately from the Bible and the panegyric oratory of the later Roman Empire, as mediated by the pattern works of Christian hagiography, Athanasius» Life of Antony (before 373) and Sulpicius Severus» Life of Martin.

Although inhabited since prehistoric times, Villefranche - sur - Mer's natural harbour, the deepest on any Mediterranean coast, proved useful both to the ancient Greeks and later the Romans who established settlements here.

Serbia has eight UNESCO world heritage sites, including the Decani monastery, the largest construction project of medieval Serbia, which houses perfectly preserved 14th century paintings and Gamzigrad, a late Roman fortress built in the early years of the 4th century.

Ryse: Son of Rome plunges you into the chaos and depravity of the late Roman Empire.

Richard Foreman and Kathy Acker conceived the «opera» as a series of fragmentary vignettes set alternately in post-apocalyptic New York, the late Roman Empire, and contemporary Iran.

Less is known of Palmyra in the later Roman period, but recent excavation by Polish archaeologists has revealed several large churches, probably of the sixth century.

«Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World» Getty Center Los Angeles OPENS: March 27 Some 200 rare objects (Egyptian stone vessels, Greek pottery and portraits, Roman luxury goods) spanning the Bronze Age to the late Roman Empire are brought together in this exploration of the cultural exchanges between Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Relics — the physical remains of holy men and women, and things associated with them — were especially important to the development of Christianity, which emerged as a powerful new religion in the Late Roman world.

But note, the «later Roman Empire» could mean a whole lot of things depending on the where, when and who.

I wonder if, in the later Roman Empire, there were barbarian denialists: «provinces devastated, nah, just people getting hysterical about a few German lads out on the town», «those emperors want you to think there's a barbarian menace just so they can keep their jobs», «this barbarian alarmism is just a conspiracy to inflict an authoritarian, militaristic, monarchical system on us, we never used to have that (oh, wait..)».

4) The existence of pre-Norman conquest salterns — saltpans over which the tide washed and from which salt - saturated sand was taken — outside the later sea dykes on the Lincolnshire coast may point to a period of slightly lowered sea level between the late Roman and the medieval high water periods.

Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of late Roman law, and whose most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.

Civil Law Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of late Roman law, and...

Later the Romans created a special tax to set aside money for a rainy day.

Not exact matches

But just as Roman children grew up believing i n the far out exploits of the Roman gods and Greek children grew up believing in Greek gods, children today grow up believing that a virgin was impregnated by a god, that this god died and was reborn, that this god later flew up into the sky and vanished, and on and on and on.

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.