red_star 25 июня 2015 г., 14:30 Пожаловаться The traditional governing classes prided themselves on preserving the ancient particularities of their home-towns. The Athenians, for instance, completed the temple of Olympian Zeus at the instigation of the emperor Hadrian, after lapse of a mere 238 years! The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 25 июня 2015 г., 13:56 Пожаловаться The early Middle Ages was an age of lavish book-illumination - for the written word had ceased to be taken for granted in western Europe. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 25 июня 2015 г., 09:15 Пожаловаться For a longer time than in the East, Latin Christians had been a harassed minority. Lake many minorities, they had reacted to this situation by treating themselves as a superior elite. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 25 июня 2015 г., 09:12 Пожаловаться The rise of the economic position of the Christian Church was sudden and dramatic: it mushroomed like a modern insurance company. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 24 июня 2015 г., 14:43 Пожаловаться To the Late Antique philosophers, the world had, admittedly, become mysterious. They contemplated its beauty with sad thoughts, like the last fragile evening-glow of a long-set sun. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 24 июня 2015 г., 14:24 Пожаловаться Seldom has a small minority played so successfully on the anxieties of society as did the Christians. They remained a small group: but they succeeded in becoming a big problem. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 24 июня 2015 г., 14:22 Пожаловаться The leading professor of rhetoric in Rome received 100,000 sesterces a year. At exactly the same time, a Christian bishop in Rome was receiving only 7,000 sesterces a year. To all appearances, his group was dwarfed by the robust edifice of classical public life; he was an incomprehensible emigrant in a great city, like Karl… Развернуть The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
red_star 24 июня 2015 г., 14:18 Пожаловаться It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles. The World of Late Antiquity Peter Robert Lamont Brown 4,3
matfatov 6 ноября 2023 г., 12:51 Пожаловаться население обратилось к теологии и бандитизму Мир поздней Античности. 150–750 гг. н. э. Питер Браун 4,3