A language of loyalty?: oaths and their roles in late antiquity
This thesis investigates the common social practice of taking oaths in Late Antiquity, broadly defined as the third to sixth centuries CE. An oath in antiquity was a sworn undertaking to which an individual was bound by the threat of supernatural retribution. Modern scholars therefore generally view...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59935/ |