BY THE year A.D. 1213 Christianity was victorious across Europe; only a few isolated pockets of paganism in remote districts of Sweden, Finland, and Moslem Spain held out against what must have seemed to be the inevitable influence of the Church. Nordic expansion was in eclipse. The age of the Vikings was at an end. The marauders who had loosed such fury on the continent to the south, had, in t...

ALINE ROUSSELLE, Porneia: on desire and the body in antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £19.95. This is a provocative, innovative, and erudite study of attitudes towards the body in antiquity, and, in particular, in the Roman Empire during the transition from paganism to Christianity from the second to the fifth century. Dr Rousselle breaks away f...

Abstract This paper explores the ambiguous role of magic in controversy over draining fens, last bastion wilderness seventeenth-century England. In what now looks like an early form environmentalist resistance to destruction these wetlands, opponents drainage accused undertakers invoking diabolical aid their audacious efforts tamper with God’s creation. Evidence this mentality can be found both...

Nikoloz Gulaberisdze's work - " Reading the column alive, a Robe of Lord and Catholic Church" simultaneously reveals specific characteristics several branches theological literature, namely: hagiographic, homiletic, polemical, historical, philosophical, hymnographic genres. Therefore, it should be considered as polygenre works, for which is necessary to discuss composition works. The first publ...

stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

Unlike Egypt, Iraq accommodated not one but two provincial identities, the Assyrian and the Babylonian. Both cultures had of course suffered violent destruction on their fall a thousand years before the Arab conquests as Nabopolassar and the Medes turned Assyria into ' heaps and ruins' in 612 B.C. so Xerxes razed the walls of Babylon, expropriated its citizens and turned its god into bullion af...

ALINE ROUSSELLE, Porneia: on desire and the body in antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £19.95. This is a provocative, innovative, and erudite study of attitudes towards the body in antiquity, and, in particular, in the Roman Empire during the transition from paganism to Christianity from the second to the fifth century. Dr Rousselle breaks away f...

Данная статья посвящена исследованию двух примеров трансформации мировоззрения бывших представителей русского неоязычества, которые можно обозначить общим термином «постнеоязычество». Первый пример — «Эмергенция», мировоззрение сетевой субкультуры «Монолит», разработанное блогерами‑публицистами В. Г. Фроловым и Е. Сычевым. Второй переход некоторых ультраправых молодых людей в радикальный ислам,...