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Title

Approaching late antiquity : the transformation from early to late empire / edited by Simon Swain and Mark Edwards.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Swain, Simon.
• Edwards, M. J. (Mark J.)

Description

xiii, 487 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Subjects

• Rome > History > Empire, 284-476
• Rome > Social conditions
• Social change > Rome
• Rome > Politics and government > 284-476
• Rome > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-466) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Simon Swain -- Economic change and the transition to late antiquity / Richard Duncan-Jones -- A new golden age? The northern Praefectura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian / Emanuele Papi -- Transition and change in Diocletian's Egypt: province and empire in the late third century / Colin Adams -- Roman law AD 200-400: from Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat? / Tony Honoré -- Roman citizenship and Roman law in the late empire / Peter Garnsey -- Emperors and armies, AD 235-395 / Michael Whitby -- Romanitas and the church of Rome / Mark Edwards -- Pagan and Christian monotheism in the age of Constantine / Mark Edwards -- The transformation of imperial churchgoing in the fourth century / Neil McLynn -- Late antique art: the problem of the concept and the cumulative aesthetic / Jaś Elsner -- Painted Hellenes: mummy portraits from late Roman Egypt / Susan Walker -- Poetry and literary culture in late antiquity / Alan Cameron -- Sophists and emperors: the case of Libanius / Simon Swain -- Philosophy as a profession in late antiquity / John Dillon.

Call Number

JFD 06-2882

ISBN

0199267146

LCCN

2004299535

OCLC

53392862

Title

Approaching late antiquity : the transformation from early to late empire / edited by Simon Swain and Mark Edwards.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-466) and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Swain, Simon.

Edwards, M. J. (Mark J.)

Research Call Number

JFD 06-2882