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A Companion to Late Antiquity
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
- Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity â from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
- Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era
- Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
- Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
- Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
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- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Figures
- Maps
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE: Approaching Late Antiquity
- PART I: The View from the Future
- CHAPTER TWO: The Byzantine Late Antiquity1
- CHAPTER THREE: Late Antiquity in the Medieval West1
- CHAPTER FOUR: Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity
- CHAPTER FIVE: Narrating Decline and Fall
- CHAPTER SIX: Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes
- PART II: Land and People
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Mobility and the Traces of Empire
- CHAPTER NINE: Information and Political Power
- CHAPTER TEN: Mediterranean Cities
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Gender and the Fall of Rome
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Church, the Living, and the Dead
- PART III: Image and Word
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries
- CHAPTER NINETEEN: Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores
- CHAPTER TWENTY: Visual and Verbal Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Discourse of Later Latin
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time
- PART IV: Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Law in Practice
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Beyond the Northern Frontiers
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Confrontation and Coexistence
- CHAPTER THIRTY: Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Syria and the Arabs
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. ad 610âc. ad 750)
- PART V: The Sacred
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The Political Church: Religion and the State
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: The Conduct of Theology and the âFathersâ of the Church
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Defining Sacred Boundaries: JewishâChristian Relations
- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Pagans in a Christian Empire
- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: âNot of This Worldâ: The Invention of Monasticism
- Bibliography
- Index