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What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religion, Christian church, Greek and Latin literature, the army, the law, the provinces, settlement, and the economy. Approaching Late Antiquity is an illustrated collection of fifteen original essays on the later Roman world written by a galaxy of internationally known scholars.

What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religion, Christian church, Greek and Latin literature, the army, the law, the provinces, settlement, and the economy. Approaching Late Antiquity is an illustrated collection of fifteen original essays on the later Roman world written by a galaxy of internationally known scholars. Each study focuses on the two centuries from AD 200 to 400; but subjects are taken according to their own organic development, and authors range later or earlier as they need. The result is a thoroughly readable account of the key themes and topics. The book challenges orthodoxies (for example, Honore on law, Whitby on military life, Edwards on monotheism), gives comprehensive coverage (Duncan-Jones on economy, Cameron on poetry, Elsner on art), and discusses the general issues and problems through major examples (McLynn on emperors in church, Papi on Italian towns, Adams on governing Egypt, Swain on Libanius, Garnsey on citizens, Dillon on philosophers, Walker on mummy portraits). The authors have set their contributions in the light of current approaches and bibliography, and the volume will be a useful reference work in its own right.

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1	Introduction	Simon Swain; 	
2	Economic Change and the Transition to Late Antiquity	Richard Duncan Jones; 	
3	A New Golden Age? The Northern Praefactura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian	Emanuele Papi; 	
4	Transition and Change in Diocletian''s Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late Third Century	Colin Adams; 	
5	Roman Law 200 to 400 AD: From Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat?	Tony Honore; 	
6	Roman Citizenship and Roman Law in the Late Empire	Peter Garnsey; 	
7	Emperors and Armies, AD 235-395	Michael Whitby; 	
8	Romanitas and the Church of Rome	Mark Edwards; 	
9	Pagan and Christian Monotheism in the Age of Constantine	Mark Edwards; 	
10	The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century	Neil McLynn; 	
11	Late Antique Art: the Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic	Jas Elsner; 	
12	Painted Hellenes: Mummy Portraits from Late Roman Egypt	Susan Walker; 	
13	Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity	Alan Cameron; 	
14	Sophists and Emperors: the Case of Libanius	Simon Swain; 	
15	Philosophy as a Profession in Late Antiquity	John Dillon;