Tag: constantine

• Tattoo Taboo? Exploring The History Of Religious Ink And Facial Tattoos

  

  Over on my Forbes blog, I explore the history of religious tattoos. This post stems from my interest in the use of various stigmas–legal, social, and even corporal–against marginalized individuals. Tattoos in Greco-Roman antiquity were often linked to servility, but could also advertise one’s religious convictions. I spoke with tattoo historian Anna Felicity Friedman about pilgrimage tattoos in […]

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  September 9, 2016

  Art and Graphics, color, epigraphy, Forbes, text, Uncategorized

  constantine, coptic, Early Christianity, epigraphy, Late Antiquity, manichaeans, roman law, tattoo

• The Hand of God: Depicting Legitimacy in Late Antiquity

  

  As virtually every ancient or medieval historian has done in their career, I will kick us off today with a scene from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. We cut to a general addressing a rather sparse audience: “Well, of course, warfare isn’t all fun. Right. Stop that! It’s all very well to laugh at the Military, but, […]

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  December 1, 2014

  Uncategorized

  art, constantine, Late Antiquity, legitimacy, manus dei, roman, theodosius