This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman
Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely …

Dodson 1998: 114-15). Excerebration through the foramen magnum and sometimes by
breaking through the ethmoid bone became more standard. Resins and oils were increasingly …

Scholars over the last few decades have been unable to find a convincing explanation for the
widespread practice of brother-sister marriage among the common people in Roman Egypt…

This is the second of a three‐section review of Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome in which we
examine in detail Harper's treatment of two allegedly widespread and mortal Roman …

Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome, written for a popular audience, uses the environment to
explain the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The book asserts that Rome fell as a result of …

In this book, Sabine R. Huebner explores the world of the protagonists of the New Testament
and the early Christians using the rich papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt. This …

Before the launch of serious studies on premodern household formation–intrinsically
connected with the name Peter Laslett–it was a widely held assumption that the nuclear-conjugal …

Kyle Harper's article on the “Plague of Cyprian” that appeared in this journal in 2015
constitutes the only comprehensive study to date of this important disease outbreak in the third …

This is the last of a three‐part review of Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome. Here, we scrutinize
Harper's treatment of the Justinianic Plague, demonstrating how he crafts a convincing …

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