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Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World

Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World

Glen Warren Bowersock

Essays on the Postclassical World Glen Warren Bowersock Peter Robert Lamont Brown, Oleg Grabar. E x a m C o p y Copyright © 1999, 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of  ...
Julian the Apostate

Julian the Apostate

Glen Warren Bowersock

In Bowersock's analysis of Julian's religious revolution, the emperor's ardent espousal of a lost cause is seen to have made intolerable demands upon pagans, Jews, and Christians alike.
Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Glen Warren Bowersock

Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam
Fiction as History: Nero to Julian

Fiction as History: Nero to Julian

Glen Warren Bowersock

Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.
Roman Arabia

Roman Arabia

Glen Warren Bowersock

The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices.
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam

Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam

Glen Warren Bowersock

The stories these mosaics tell unfold in this brief, richly informed book by a preeminent scholar of the classical world.
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World

Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World

Glen Warren Bowersock

A colorful tour of late antiquity covers late Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic culture and discusses topics ranging from angels in Islam, concubinage, barbarians and ethnicity, and empire building.
The Early Christian Centuries

The Early Christian Centuries

Philip Rousseau

Older but important studies: Glen W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969) and MarciaL. Colish, The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to theEarly Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 1985). A particularly brilliant  ...
Watkins Glen Racing

Watkins Glen Racing

Kirk W. House

Through vintage photographs, primarily from the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen, Watkins Glen Racing chronicles the history of the track with early drivers, like Cameron Argetsinger, Phil Walters, and Dave ...
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

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Warren F. H. clerk, boards 78 Waltham Warren Gardner, house 14 Ashland place Warren (ii'orgc, ins. agent John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. Sears building, house at Natick Warren George, apothecary, IbOo Wash, house do. Warren George ...
Who Speaks for the Negro?

Who Speaks for the Negro?

Warren, Robert Penn

Albert Rothenberg, MD, to Warren, Jan. 16, 1964. Rothenberg was assistant medical director at the Yale Psychiatric Institute, and he put Warren in touch with Dr. Earl Biassey. Dr. Frederic Solomon, MD, Howard University, to Warren, Nov.
Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern ...

Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern ...

Patricia L. Bradley

7 Set in the midst of the Kentucky countryside, Warren's hometown bore its own surprising brand of cosmopolitanism. ... Then, in addition to the books that the intellectually minded Robert Franklin Warren made available to his son, Warren ...
Trouble in the Glen

Trouble in the Glen

Maurice Walsh

Veteran Gawaine Mickelthwait, home from the war in the East, heals the breach between the people of Glen Ardaneigh and the estate's new laird who is of Spanish as well as Scottish blood.
Fraser Island Dingo

Fraser Island Dingo

Caroline Glen

Australian nature poems by award winning author Caroline Glen
Around Watkins Glen

Around Watkins Glen

Charles R. Mitchell

Long ago, visitors reached Watkins Glen by railroad, steamboat, and horse-drawn wagon.
The Spirit of the Times

The Spirit of the Times

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Therefore, hail to the gloomy but ever glorious Glen, in which, many many long and short years ago, we met the Lady ... Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower ; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.
American Educational History Journal: Volume 39 #1 & 2

American Educational History Journal: Volume 39 #1 & 2

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Site Warren Western Reserve High School: Progress reports, photographs. Warren, OH: ... Warren BOE debates funds: Extra building project money expected. ... School officials close McKinley: Warren Board to vote on Monday on resolution.
A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family in Normandy, ...

A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family in Normandy, ...

Thomas Warren

Charles Warren, second son of James, was of the Foreign Office, and resided at Midhurst, m. Jane, daughter of William Sandham, solicitor, ... Charles Warren, her first cousin, Vicar of Over, Camb. 3. William, b. 1812, d. 1814. 4. Henry, b. 1814 ...
The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio: Warren Buffett Stock ...

The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio: Warren Buffett Stock ...

Mary Buffett

The best-selling authors of Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage present an in-depth look at the stocks owned by Warren Buffett to explain why he has invested in them, sharing detailed case studies that reveal specific reasons each ...
Glen Huey's Illustrated Guide to Building Period Furniture: ...

Glen Huey's Illustrated Guide to Building Period Furniture: ...

Glen Huey

" Well now you can! In this book and DVD, you'll find five exquisite examples of classic American furniture that you'll be able to call your own.
The Blue and Gold

The Blue and Gold

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... Jr. Warren Kimball Green Glen Gardner Hahn Richard Morris Holman Felix Henry Hurni John Christopher Johnson Donald Babcock Keyes Erie Arlington Brock Charles Lewis Camp Henry Homer Collins Robert Alexander Dunham Duncan ...
Children of the Great Depression: 25th Anniversary Edition

Children of the Great Depression: 25th Anniversary Edition

Glen H. Elder

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort.
The Glen V. Mills Directory of the City of Ann Arbor

The Glen V. Mills Directory of the City of Ann Arbor

Glen V. Mills

Vols. [9] and [11] contain inverted and v. [13] has appended, directory of Ypsilanti.
On the Donation of Constantine

On the Donation of Constantine

Lorenzo Valla

This volume provides a new translation with introduction and notes by Bowersock."
The Shadow of the Glen

The Shadow of the Glen

J. M. Synge

His experiences on the Aran islands were to form the basis for many of his plays, including The Shadow of the Glen, which tells the story of an unfaithful wife and was attacked by Irish nationalist leader Arthur Griffith as 'a slur on Irish ...
Memoirs and select letters of Mrs. A. Warren, with ...

Memoirs and select letters of Mrs. A. Warren, with ...

Samuel Warren

Samuel Warren. oracles to which they appealed, the deeper was his conviction of the accuracy of the doctrines they taught, and the necessity of an experimental knowledge of them. A fresh impulse was given to his religious feelings: from a ...
Glen Rose, Texas

Glen Rose, Texas

Gene Fowler

Showcased here are images of the Hill postcard collection, which relay the intriguing story of Glen Rose as a recreation mecca, the Moonshine Capital of Texas during Prohibition, the discovery of the infamous dinosaur tracks, and its ...
Glen Rose, Texas

Glen Rose, Texas

Gene Fowler

Showcased here are images of the Hill postcard collection, which relay the intriguing story of Glen Rose as a recreation mecca, the Moonshine Capital of Texas during Prohibition, the discovery of the infamous dinosaur tracks, and its ...
Mary's Bower, or, the Castle on the Glen; a pastoral drama ...

Mary's Bower, or, the Castle on the Glen; a pastoral drama ...

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9.3 By lprayers, and tears, An its sup orter's fears, Ascending y the glen, The bathing pool and lin, The body carried to her lonely Hut, Till she did mark A vital spark That she at length, Fann'd into strength . With secret aid from medicines, and ...

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