A systematic socio-cultural study of the uses Christian poetry in late antique Greek-speaking Mediterranean is still lacking. Most literary overviews restrict themselves to an overview extant texts and some programmatic reflections by Gregory Nazianzus. This paper seeks address this matter a combined reading best-known poetic forms (including Gregory) poems copied Codex Visionum (now Bodmer Col...

This paper assesses the degree to which current ‘ritual’ and ‘practical’ models of religious change fit with the available archaeological evidence for the spread of Buddhism in India during between the third and first centuries BC. The key question is how Buddhist monastic communities integrated themselves within the social, religious and economic fabric of the areas in which they arrived, and ...