Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 by Kate Cooper, Julia HillnerRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 2.8 MbOverview: Traces the central role played by aristocratic patronage in the transformation of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity. It moves away from privileging the administrative and institutional developments related to the rise […]
Making Early Medieval Societies: Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300–1200 by Kate CooperRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 4.3 MbOverview: Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? […]
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women by Kate Cooper Requirements: ePUB Reader, 3.6MBOverview: According to most recorded history, women in the ancient world lived invisibly. Piecing together their story from the few contemproary accounts that have survived required painstaking detective work by Cooper, but it renders the past and the present […]