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Through the eyes of a deacon: lesser clergy, major donors, and institutional property in fifth‐century Rome by Leyser, Conrad

“…This is a study of the cults of two holy deacons at Rome: St Stephen and St Laurence. It is argued that the narratives associated with these saints were a…”
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Law, memory, and priestly office in Rome, c.500 by Leyser, Conrad

“…This essay sets the development of Christian thinking about law and clerical office in the wider context of the discussion of office in the later Roman empire…”
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Introduction The transformation of law in the late and post‐Roman world by Leyser, Conrad

“…The history of law in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages used to offer a repository of certainty. It is now a field in productive turmoil. The briefest…”
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Law, memory, and priestly office in Rome, c .500 by Leyser, Conrad

“…This essay sets the development of Christian thinking about law and clerical office in the wider context of the discussion of office in the later Roman empire…”
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Review article: Church reform - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? by Leyser, Conrad

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Settlement, Landscape and Narrative: What Really Happened in History by Leyser, Conrad, Standen, Naomi, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie

“…Some seventy years ago, in his What Happened in History, the archaeologist Gordon Childe proposed a model for the development of complex societies originating…”
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Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890–c.970 by LEYSER, CONRAD

“…For at least a generation in the early tenth century, according to Liudprand of Cremona, the bishop of Rome was to be found in the bedchamber of the House of…”
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Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liundprand of Cremona, c. 890-c.970 by Leyser, Conrad

“…It is believed that Liudprand of Cremona's account of the Roman Church, whether true or false, was designed to make a wider point about careerism in the higher…”
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Das monastische Experiment: Die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens . Albrecht Diem by Leyser, Conrad

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Reviews of Books:Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Guy Halsall by Leyser, Conrad

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The Uses of the Desert in the Sixth-Century West by Leyser, Conrad

“…This essay surveys the cultural uses of the Egyptian desert in western ascetic culture across the fifth and sixth centuries. Challenging the commonly-held…”
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The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium . Michael Frassetto by Leyser, Conrad

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The temptations of cult: Roman martyr piety in the age of Gregory the Great by Leyser, Conrad

“…Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) was arguably the most important Roman writer and civic leader of the early middle ages; the Roman martyrs were certainly the…”
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The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West by Cooper, Kate, Leyser, Conrad

“…This essay attempts to stage an encounter between post‐Foucauldian approaches to masculinity in the ancient world on the one hand, and the reading of Augustine…”
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Shorter note. The Atlas of Medieval Europe. Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn by Leyser, C

“…Abstract only…”
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Bread and butter by Leyser, Conrad

“…Henry Chadwick's "East and West. The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence" is a melancholy work by a great…”
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George E. Demacopoulos. Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome by Leyser, Conrad

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Reviews of Books by Curtis, Michael, Strachan, Hew, Perdue, Peter C., Petraccia, Maria Federica, Hirsch, Steven W., Voll, John O., Leyser, Conrad, Barber, Malcolm C., Jackson, Peter, Grubb, James S., Wilson, Peter H., Beales, Derek, Archer, Christon I., Simms, Brendan, Reid, John G., Messamore, Barbara J., González, Luis A., Austen, Ralph A., Anna, Timothy E., Goddard, Hugh, MaCkenzie, John M., Berger, Stefan, Blyth, Robert J., Godsey, William D., Gooch, John, Laven, David, Peers, Douglas M., Smil, Vaclav, Eichengreen, Barry, Young, John W., Feinberg, Melissa, Saul, Norman, Guttmann, Allen, Conniff, Michael, Snow, Nancy, Davies, Catherine, Stockwell, Sarah, Ferris, John, Marples, David R., French, David, Cohen, Warren I., Ninkovich, Frank, Kovrig, Bennett, Carley, Michael Jabara, Wilson, Mary C., Stachurska, Marta Magdalena, Brennan, Patrick H., Moore, Bob, Thomas, Martin, Matsumura, Janice, Hayford, Charles W., Stokes, Raymond G., Jacobs, Seth, Rozman, Gilbert, Ganguly, Sumit, Young, Marilyn B., Mitchell, Nancy, Redwood, John, Echevarria, Antulio J., Chickering, Roger

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Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome by Leyser, Conrad

“…Leyser reviews Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome by George E. Demacopoulos…”
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The monastic thought and culture of pope gregory the great in their western context, c400-604 by Leyser, Conrad

“…Gregory was the first monk to be pope; proverbially, he would have preferred to have remained a monk; the audience he addressed was almost always made up of…”
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