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The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. This volume examines the genesis of the Lyric Canon, and explores the process of canonization of lyric poetry and the textual transmission and preservation of lyric poems from the archaic period through to the… More

This newest volume in the History of Medieval Canon Law series surveys the history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law. Beginning in the Patristic Age, Susan Wessel outlines the evolution of ecclesiastical law before the Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.). She covers the earliest documents and councils in… More

A collection of papers from the NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers which aim to compare biblical and Mesopotamian canons of literature. It includes indexes of subjects, biblical references and authors. More

This book is a study of Byzantine canon law which, although usually neglected by legal-historical research, Dr Wagschal argues is a fascinating and complex legal system of considerable coherence and sophistication, with many implications for our broader understanding of Christian culture and… More

This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic… More

This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic… More

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. These newly commissioned essays cover private, criminal and public law as well as the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political thought. No other book covers so much ground. More

Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of those in the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. More

Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of those in the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. More

This work examines the themes of the constitution of the Church, from the 6th to the 12th century. They focus on discipline of the clergy and the question of divorce, as they were faced historically in the canon law of the principle Christian Churches. More

…Antigone, or the noble, towering rage of an Ajax wronged? These are but a few of the famous triumphs which earned Sophocles a place alongside Aeschylus and Euripides as one of the three pillars of the tragic canon in the golden age of fifth-century Athenian drama. Only seven of Sophocles' 123 plays More

…of texts from scroll to codex in late antiquity converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity and enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. Guy Stroumsa describes how canonical scripture was established and how its interpretation replaced blood sacrifice in religious ritual. More

…discoveries at Troy and Carthage, explaining how the ruined cities inspired irreverent reconstructions of classical epic and imaginative improvisations on the canonical narratives about both cities. It will appeal to anyone interested in classical reception and nineteenth-century culture. More

Aristotle labours under no illusion that in the practical sphere humans operate according to the canons of logic. This does not prevent him, however, from bringing his own logical acumen to his study of human behaviour. Aristotle, according to Fr. Flannery, depicts the way in which human acts of… More

…is nothing new under the sun, nor inside the cave. We have grown complacent in our preconceptions of Plato, habitually adopting the web of belief that comes with the canonical corpus. Yet it is not the web itself that stands in the way of progress, but the tendency to adopt it without question. More

…market resulting from regular media coverage, Hollywood blockbusters and the recent 100yr anniversary. This will be an essential addition to the canon. Sure to stand out in Jonathan Mayo's intense, immersive Minute by Minute style, with his striking and often lauded ability to draw out the most... More

The articles in this volume are concerned with aspects of the law, both civil and canon, and with the kinship ties formed through godparenthood, adoption and marriage by the emperor and his subjects in the 11th to 15th centuries. Court procedure, crime detection and punishment are all explored. More

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era.… More