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Despre aceasta baza de date puteti citi chiar pe situl oficial. Mai jos, cateva link-uri catre niste reviste excelente dedicate lumii clasice:

• Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions
• Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
• Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
• Dialogues d'histoire ancienne
• Gallia
• Gallia Préhistoire
• Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens
• Paléo, Revue d'Archéologie Préhistorique
• Paléorient
• Revue archéologique de Picardie
• Revue archéologique du Centre de la France
• Revue de l'histoire des religions
• Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire
  

J. Raven (ed.) - Lost Libraries [2004]

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La cultura e' una benedizione per pochissimi eletti, ma per il popolo e' un veleno.

J. Raven (ed.) - Lost Libraries. The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: The Resonances of Loss
  
• Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia
• Aristotle’s ‘Peripatetic’ Library
• Text to Trophy: Shifting Representations of Regiomontanus’s Library
• The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive
• Habits of Manuscript-Collecting: The Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester
• "The Manuscripts flew about like Butterflies": The Break-Up of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century
• Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria
• Lost Royal Libraries and Hanoverian Court Culture
• Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences for French Library History
• A Plague of Books: The Dispersal and Disappearance of the Diocesan Libraries of the Church of Ireland
• The Lost Jewish Libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage
• China’s Roosevelt Library
• China’s Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet
• Burn the Books
• Index

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Cei interesati de subiect, pot consulta si articolul lui Clarence A. Forbes, Books for the Burning, aici.

N. Fields - Rome's Saxon Shore [2006]

N. Fields - Rome's Saxon Shore. Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500, Osprey Publishing, 2006.

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Britannia
• Carausius
• Barbarica conspiratio
• Stilicho
• Constantinus
• Design
• Construction methods
• Raw Materials
• Human resources
• Anatomy
• Defences
• Brancaster-Branoduno
• Caister-on-Sea
• Burgh Castle-Gariannum
• Walton Castle
• Bradwell-Othona
• Reculver-Regulbium
• Richborough-Rutupiae
• Daver-Dubris
• Lympne-Lemanis
• Pevensey-Anderitum
• Portchester-Portus Adurni
• Function
• Notitia Dignitatum
• Anti-pirate defence
• Defence against Rome
• Fortified ports
• Occupation
• Internal buildings
• Garrisons
• Extra-mural activity
• Twilight years
• The sites today
• Brancaster
• Caister-on-Sea
• Burgh Castle
• Walton Castle
• Bradwell
• Reculver
• Richborough
• Dover
• Lympne
• Pevensey
• Porchester
• Useful contact information
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
  

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Ammianus after Julian [2007]

J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler (ed.) - Ammianus After Julian. The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae.

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• History and Historiography:
• Vom Tsunami von 365 zum Mimas-Orakel: Ammianus Marcellinus als Zeithistoriker und die spätgriechische Tradition
• Der Reflex der Selbstdarstellung der valentinianischen Dynastie bei Ammianus Marcellinus und den Kirchenhistorikern
• Ammianus on Valentinian. Some Observations
• Valentinian and the Bishops: Ammianus 30.9.5 in Context
• The Chronology of Valens’ Dealings with Persia and Armenia, 364–378 CE
• Ammianus on the Revolt of Firmus
• Literary Composition:
• Literary Aspects of Ammianus’ Second Digression on Rome
• La traversée du Danube par les Goths: La subversion d’un modèle héroïque (Ammien Marcellin 31.4)
• Greek and Roman Parallel History in Ammianus
• The Sphragis and Closure of the Res Gestae
• Crisis of Empire:
• Et ne quid coturni terribilis fabulae relinquerent intemptatum… (Amm. Marc. 28.6.29). Die Göttin der Gerechtigkeit und der comes Romanus
• Crossing the Frontiers: Imperial Power in the Last Book of Ammianus
• Non consolandi gratia, sed probrose monendi (Res Gestae 28.1.4). The Hazards of (Moral) Historiography
• Contributors
• Index Nominum
• Index Rerum
  

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The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [1999]

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Ken Dowden - European Paganism (2000)

Ken Dowden - European Paganism. The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Routledge, 2000.

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• How to use this book
• Authors and events: a time-chart
• Part. I: Approaching paganism
• Pagans, so primitive
• Christian ending
• Roman government
• Germanic invaders
• Beyond the Roman pale
• Beyond the Byzantine pale
• Evidence
• Latin and other languages
• Greek and Roman windows on barbarian culture
• Part. II: Dividing the landscape
• Location
• Focus and area
• Physical features (absolute position)
• Relative position
• Ownership: public and private
• Power
• The god in the stone?
• Strength in numbers: tree, stone, spring
• Part. III: Focus I: spring, lake, river
• Spring and well
• What a spring is
• Prevalence
• Purity and health
• What happens at springs and wells
• Saints, the conversion of the aniconic, and heads
• Other water
• Lake
• River
• Water worship
• Part. IV: Focus II: stone and tree
• Stone
• What a stone is
• Feelings about stones
• Personalising stones
• Stones and permanence
• Stone as the object of cult
• What happens at stones
• Tree
• What trees are like
• Personalising trees
• Notable trees
• What happens at trees
• Pagan tree and Christian objectors
• Part. V: Area I: land
• Hill and mountain
• What mountains are like
• Worship on mountains: lightning and fire
• Shore and island
• Sea: shore and promontory
• Islands
• Cave
• Part. VI: Area II: growth
• Meadow
• Grove
• What a grove is like
• Grove and temple-culture
• The feel of natural groves
• Grove and garden
• Groves and barbarians
• Groves and placenames
• The power of groves
• Ancient groves
• Inviolability
• On the Dusii demons…
• Divine ownership
• Inside the grove
• Part. VII: Technology: statues, shrines and temples
• Statues
• The place of statues
• Impressive statues and Christian destruction
• Temple, fanum, ecclesia
• What a temple is
• The shape of temples
• Contents and decoration
• Shrines, vocabulary and placenames
• Temples in less developed cultures
• Continuity
• Instances
• What are Christians to do with temples or fana?
• Destroy the fana!
• Build churches!
• Part. VIII: Christian paganism
• Christian knowledge
• Textuality: coming down from Sinai
• Specificity
• What pagans do
• Eating and drinking
• Dance
• Particular customs
• New Year’s Day
• Thursday
• The moon
• Laurel
• Catechism: renouncing what?
• Part. IX: Pagan rite
• Sacrifice
• Why sacrifice?
• What to sacrifice
• The action of sacrifice
• Beyond Sacrifice
• Non-sacrificial offerings
• How to offer things that aren’t alive
• Dance and song
• Human sacrifice
• Human sacrifice is ‘only’ execution?
• Battle and hanging
• Divination and other reasons
• Manipulation of place
• Procession
• Pilgrimage
• Part. X: Pagan time
• Time-reckoning
• Lunar months
• Intercalation and periods of several years
• Weeks
• Calendar and festival
• A Gaulish calendar
• Duration of festivals
• An English calendar
• Equinoxes and other times
• The Calendar of Erchia
• Part. XI: A few aspects of Gods
• Christian contrasts
• Pagan plurality
• Do the pagan Gods exist?
• Divine functions
• Sets of gods
• Lightning
• Part. XII: Priests
• The need for priests
• What a priest is
• Priestly specialism, development of the state
• Religion in the home, without professionals
• Priests and government
• King-priests
• Kings and priests
• Oligarchy in Gaul—‘no sacrifice without a philosopher’
• Oligarchy at Rome
• Temple priests, grove priests
• Greece
• Germans
• Gauls
• Divination
• Priests and ritual: a common Indo-European inheritance?
• The role of women
• Conclusions
• Part. XIII: Cradle to grave
• Cradle
• Transitions
• Illness and crisis
• Grave
• Normal people
• Grand burial
• Mounds to marvel at
• Part. XIV: Unity is the Thing
• Gaul: centrality of the shrine
• The Germanic Thing
• Groves and assemblies
• Periodicity and leagues
• Human sacrifice and beginnings
• The beginning of the world
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Abbreviations
• Primary literature: general information and where to find a text and translation
• Secondary literature
• Indexes
• Index locorum—passages cited or reported
• Index nominum I—Gods, mythic entities and festivals
• Index nominum II—(real) persons, peoples and places
• Index rerum—topics and themes
• Index auctorum—modern authors

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