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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 ? 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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For the last generation, late antiquity ? the time between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean ? has come to be regarded as one of the most dynamic periods of ancient history. Once seen as a time of decline and fall, late antiquity is now viewed as an era of powerful transformation, in which the peoples and institutions that profoundly influenced the modern world took shape.

In providing a useful overview of current scholarship on late antiquity, the essays emphasize the central importance of religion in this period. Theology and belief are situated in historical context as the book highlights the interconnectedness of religious life with economic, social, and political realms.

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List of Figures ix  
List of Maps x
 
Notes on Contributors xi
 
Preface and Acknowledgments xviii
 
List of Abbreviations xxiii
 
1 Approaching Late Antiquity 1
 Wendy Mayer
 
PART I The View from the Future 15
 
2 The Byzantine Late Antiquity 17
 Stratis Papaioannou
 
3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West 29
 Conrad Leyser
 
4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity 43
 Mark Vessey
 
5 Narrating Decline and Fall 59
 Clifford Ando
 
6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77
 Stefan Rebenich
 
PART II Land and People 93
 
7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives 97
 Mark Humphries
 
8 Mobility and the Traces of Empire 110
 Blake Leyerle
 
9 Information and Political Power 125
 Claire Sotinel
 
10 Mediterranean Cities 139
 S. T. Loseby
 
11 The Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156
 Olof Brandt
 
12 Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170
 Dennis E. Trout
 
13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187
 Kate Cooper
 
14 Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201
 Judith Evans-Grubbs
 
15 The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220
 Eric Rebillard
 
PART III Image and Word 231
 
16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority 233
 Raffaella Cribiore
 
17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity 246
 Kim Haines-Eitzen
 
18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258
 Karla Pollmann
 
19 Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270
 Jennifer Ebbeler
 
20 Visual and Verbal Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285
 James A. Francis
 
21 Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306
 Felicity Harley
 
22 The Discourse of Later Latin 327
 Philip Burton
 
23 Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt 342
 Malcolm Choat
 
24 Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time 357
 David Woods
 
PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond 373
 
25 Law in Practice 377
 Caroline Humfress
 
26 The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392
 Andrew Gillett
 
27 Beyond the Northern Frontiers 409
 Guy Halsall
 
28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West 426
 John Vanderspoel
 
29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Confrontation and Coexistence 441
 Jan Willem Drijvers
 
30 Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455
 Christine Shepardson
 
31 Syria and the Arabs 467
 David Cook
 
32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479
 Andrew Marsham
 
PART V The Sacred 493
 
33 Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497
 Richard Lim
 
34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512
 Michael Gaddis
 
35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525
 Rita Lizzi Testa
 
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539
 Thomas Graumann
 
37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish–Christian Relations 556
 Naomi Koltun-Fromm
 
38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572
 Neil McLynn
 
39 "Not of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588
 Daniel F. Caner
 
Bibliography 601
 
Index 700

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