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Sarah Bond@MANNapoli My favorite Gregorian–Julian converter online is here: https://t.co/bNysPj0xVF And although I recommend Feeney's 2008 book a lot https://t.co/LqNFg5CU4T, why not try this superb article by Nomi Claire Lazar on the political rhetoric of calendar adjustment: https://t.co/ouDoFR1IP8 (Source)

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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon—mainly inscriptions and coins—is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now.

Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications in a substantial introduction. He argues that while a hopeful intention of...
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Sarah BondAs I have written about before, the concept of asylum (and later the concept of early Christian "sanctuary" rights) is an ancient one: https://t.co/JFip6ob3NA Please see Kent Rigsby's amazing open access book: https://t.co/zeOViAJpcz (Source)

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Sarah Bond@jordantpickett My copy of Burford is just as ragged! What a fantastic book. (Source)

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Staying Roman

What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that... more
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Sarah BondThe brilliant Jonathan Conant (@BrownUniversity) has a book we should all read that mentions this inscription and delves into the Romanness of North Africa in Late Antiquity: 'Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700.' https://t.co/MZ1tIgZkrb (Source)

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Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few... more
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Sarah BondBy the by, a great book that helped me view Heraclius and Byzantium from a non-Roman perspective is https://t.co/gxkRZu3dok “Byzantium viewed by the Arabs” by Prof. Nadia Maria El Cheikh (@NadiaelCheikh1) @Harvard_Press (Source)

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The Rise and Demise of the Uc Santa Cruz Colleges

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Sarah Bond@carlosfnorena @UIGradCollege @DerekBCounts @dorothyk98 I'd really love to read that and would pass it onto our graduate students here as well. From the outside, you are this hyper-successful ancient numismatist whom I was terrified to meet when I first went to Berkeley to speak some years ago after reading (& citing) your book a lot. (Source)

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Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western Empire.

In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were still very much alive in the...
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Sarah Bond@TradeTexasBig @DigitaVaticana Yes. Please click on the link for the full manuscript. You may also enjoy this book on the calendar by Michele Salzman. https://t.co/3R6qcyrxRJ (Source)

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The World of the 'Fullo' takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analyzing the social and economic worlds in which the fullers lived and worked, it tells the story of their economic circumstances, the way they organized their workshops, the places where they worked in the city, and their everyday lives on the shop floor and beyond. Through focusing on the lower segments of society, Flohr uses everyday work as the major organizing principle of the narrative: the volume discusses the decisions taken by those responsible for the... more
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Sarah Bond@CarlyASilver @mikofLohr Miko is brilliant at ancient fulleries, so try his articles: https://t.co/B1jXZiuSnb Then read his book: https://t.co/AU7ALYJ5JR (Source)

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Honor Among Thieves examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars have long viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groups that provided mutual support, proper burial, and sociability, and spaces where nonelite individuals could seek status supposedly denied them in their contemporary society. However, the analysis presented here concentrates on how craftsmen, merchants, and associations interacted with each other and with elite and nonelite constituencies; managed economic, political, social, and legal... more
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Sarah Bond@museiincomune @britishmuseum The best book currently on late antique Egyptian guilds (which I reviewed with delight!) is by a man with one of the best names in Classics: Philip Venticinque. Read his #OA articles (e.g. GRBS): https://t.co/4Q6Tvx8jvp & his great book on them: https://t.co/rebQXmTIrc @UofMPress (Source)

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Sarah Bond@instagram @Wikimedia Without doubt, the best book on this subject is Sofie Remijsen's "The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity" @CambridgeUP https://t.co/XkAHFhqxHF & Anna Sparreboom's work on African venationes [PDF]: https://t.co/5MYtOg5xjO 🐅🦒 (Source)

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Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects.

This book examines the...
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Sarah Bond@UMichLibrary If you'd like to read more papyrus letters from the ancient world, I'd say follow Dr. @Papyrus_Stories & her blog: https://t.co/oVutI4Bd8i Also note that Antonia Sarri has a great book on the materiality (e.g. ink, papyri) of letter writing in antiquity: https://t.co/etrWD8HiYB (Source)

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Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman practices in relation to the urban environment. Through the archaeological remains, the sermons of the city's bishop, Chromatius, and the artwork and epigraphic evidence in the sacred buildings, the city and its inhabitants leave insights into a reshaping of the urban environment and its... more
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Sarah BondAnd in case you didn't know, Prof. @Robertmceachnie wrote a brilliant book after early Christian Aquileia that you should read: https://t.co/sykfSkrQMU It even uses one the of the splendid 4thC CE Santa Maria Assunta basilica mosaics on the cover </swoon> https://t.co/TMvhfV38rS (Source)

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A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of faith and community. But by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and survived became...
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Sarah Bond@DigitaVaticana @ClericalExile To read more about Bishops & Exile in Late Antiquity, see @jennisifire's brand new book on the matter which is open access (i.e. free to read): https://t.co/Bmb7f79X8Q and then read more about the history of the Hagia Sophia(s) with Alessandro Taddei: https://t.co/0QnkkWF9Xp (Source)

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Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups.

By examining five technologies-lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic perspective, and mapping-Mosaics of Knowledge demonstrates how the Romans broke up a world we might have imagined them to unite. That is, the recording, storage, and recall of information in physical media might be expected to bind together persons distant in time and space. More often...
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Sarah Bond@TheAlexKnapp Yes! @AntiqueThought has a whole section on it in his new book. Roman architectural plans are fascinating. https://t.co/Ubyjb2Uflo (Source)

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Reimagining Hagar illustrates that while interpretations of Hagar as Black are not frequent within the entire history of her interpretation, such interpretations are part of strategies to emphasize elements of Hagar's story in order to associate or disassociate her from particular groups. It considers how interpreters engage markers of difference, including gender, ethnicity, status and their intersections in their portrayals of Hagar. Nyasha Junior offers a reception history that examines interpretations of Hagar with a focus on interpretations of Hagar as a Black woman. Reception... more
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Sarah BondHello! The amazing Prof. @NyashaJunior will be here in Iowa City on Thursday for a talk that is free and open to the public. It's on her forthcoming book: https://t.co/wmgipcjv4B The talk is: “Black Like Me: Representations of Biblical Hagar” Please share and join us this week! https://t.co/D1VnjMqLSH (Source)

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How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?


In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes “queered” indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they sought to impose, they did so by delimiting Zulu polygamy; restricting alcohol access, clothing, and even friendship; and assigning only Europeans to government schools. 

Using queer and critical indigenous theory,...
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Sarah BondHello, one of my favorite people on earth is @Halfrican_One and he has a new amazing book: “Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa” @UMinnPress https://t.co/eANsVT6jkc https://t.co/G1WrUpzmrK (Source)

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The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history.

Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation's economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces. The story of tobacco's fortunes may seem straightforward: science triumphed over our addictive habits and the cynical machinations of tobacco executives. Yet the reality is more complicated. Both the cigarette's popularity and its...
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Sarah BondGiving Prof. @allofmilov’s book to everyone in my family this holiday season because it’s an amazing book and also f**k the patriarchy. https://t.co/zNssAOfk8g (Source)

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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome

While the remains of its massive aqueducts serve as tangible reminders of Rome’s efforts to control its supply of drinking water, there are scant physical reminders that other waters sometimes raged out of control. In fact, floods were simply a part of life in ancient Rome, where proximity to the Tiber left a substantial part of the city vulnerable to the river's occasional transgressions.

Here, in the first book-length treatment of the impact of floods on an ancient city, Gregory S. Aldrete draws upon a diverse range of scientific and cultural data to develop a rich and detailed...
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Sarah Bond@carolemadge For the best book on flooding in antiquity, and particularly in Rome, see Greg Aldrete's 'Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome' https://t.co/qxw5rq3Rzd (Source)

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Caesar in Gaul and Rome

War in Words

A fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar's Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation. less
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Sarah Bond@kataplexis @prof_gabriele @britishmuseum True. And I love @AntiqueThought ‘s book on this, which underscores this point for sure. https://t.co/YyAkGY5aQY (Source)

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While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights. At the same time,... more
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Sarah BondA great time to read @JudithMPascoe’s book about the popularity of Brontë in Japan: https://t.co/fmliehDcnI https://t.co/t3rvDjD3b5 (Source)

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A disturbing exposé of how today's alt-right men's groups use ancient sources to promote a new brand of toxic masculinity online.

A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims--arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations but is now under siege.

Donna Zuckerberg dives deep into the virtual communities of the far right, where men lament their loss of...
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Soraya Nadia Mcdonald@ztsamudzi @Seka_hako Yes! It's why Donna Zuckerberg's book is on this list! https://t.co/rppqcIBHe3 (Source)

Sarah BondNo one writes a book review like the splendid Prof. @emuehlbe and this one is a must read review of Prof. @donnazuck ‘s @Harvard_Press book ‘Not All Dead White Men’: https://t.co/9qyDyNk71B (Source)

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Join bestselling author Beth Moore in her life-changing quest of vine-chasing--and learn how everything changes when you discover the true meaning of a fruitful, God-pleasing, meaning-filled life.
Most of us have times when, if we are honest, we'd admit to feeling like our lives are embarrassingly small and insignificant. Times when it seems like we're going through a whole lot of pain and striving without much to show for it. Like our daily pursuits don't really matter in the long run.

At times like that, we can't help wondering if we really matter--to the world or...
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Christine CaineI am so excited that this book is available for pre- order today. I’ve read it twice, it is so good. Beautifully written, personal, deep, rich, full of Scripture, wisdom, insight and fascinating facts. I couldn’t put it down. Congratulations @BethMooreLPM https://t.co/tODyXDU2uh (Source)

Melissa MooreSending my mom @bethmoorelpm all my love this morning as her new book Chasing Vines releases! I had the honor of being the first one to read each chapter & I have loved this project long before today. It is fantastic. This morning I’m sitting w/ the book in my hands, remembering. https://t.co/Lztp5QHn4O (Source)

Sarah Bond@DigitaVaticana I came to know Isidore's letter collection better due to a great chapter by Lillian Larsen addressing their place in late antique epistolography (Ch. 18). Please read the entirety of the book (but get it from the library because it is way too expensive): https://t.co/jEfwgZXsik (Source)

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