Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of mediev...(展开全部)

Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh...(展开全部)

Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh...(展开全部)

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of viole...(展开全部)

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of viole...(展开全部)

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits―teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them―quite as much as suppor...(展开全部)

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Ch...(展开全部)

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Ch...(展开全部)