Sökning: "Late Antiquity"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Late Antiquity.
6. Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
Sammanfattning : This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity to associate dreams and texts with each other. LÄS MER
7. Pagan Pasts, Christian Futures: Memory Manipulation and Christianisation in the Cities of Western Asia Minor
Sammanfattning : Religion has always impacted how we structure the physical world around us, and the Roman world was no exception. Roman cities were constructed and shaped around religious life and religious practices. Religious art was omnipresent, and religious architecture monumental. LÄS MER
8. Antiken som ideal : Det antikiserande inredningsmåleriet och dess sociala funktioner i högreståndsmiljöer i Dalarna och Gästrikland 1791-1818
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on classical style wall painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The study specifically involves the governor's official residence in Falun and nine manor houses in the Swedish provinces of Dalarna and Gästrikland, all of which were decorated in the classical style by local artist Johan Nils Asplind between 1791 and 1818. LÄS MER
9. Reading John Climacus: Rhetorical Argumentation, Literary Convention and the Tradition of Monastic Formation
Sammanfattning : This thesis offers an investigation of the literary form and the literary composition of The Ladder by John Climacus, as well as a study of how the author uses the tradition to form his reader. Besides a brief introduction with a survey of the previous research, the study comprises four chapters. LÄS MER
10. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia
Sammanfattning : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. LÄS MER
