Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America. Sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Mediterranean Studies program. jwil 16.ii.2010

For nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due to the perishable nature of its material, however, no examples have survived; today it […]

Drawn from Prof. Vladislav Zubok's new book of the same title (Harvard University Press, 2009), this talk examines one of the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history: the the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. In pursuing the dream of a civil, democratic, socialist society, Russian intellectuals, writers, and […]

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