Research Catalog

Title

A companion to late Antiquity / edited by Philip Rousseau ; with the assistance of Jutta Raithel.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Supplementary Content

20090326052016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rousseau, Philip.
• Raithel, Jutta.

Description

xxiv, 709 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

'A Companion to Late Antiquity' reflects the dynamism and eclecticism of scholarship on late antiquity, providing readers with an accessible and authoritative overview of this exciting period.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.

Alternative Title

Late Antiquity

Subjects

• Mediterranean Region
• Hellenism
• To 476
• Civilization, Classical
• Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• History, Ancient
• Late oudheid
• Mediterranean Region > History > To 476
• History
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-699) and index.

Contents

Approaching Late Antiquity / Wendy Mayer -- The Byzantine Late Antiquity / Stratis Papaiaonnou -- Late Antiquity in the Medieval West / Conrad Leyser -- Cities of the Mind : Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity / Mark Vessey -- Narrating Decline and Fall / Clifford Ando -- Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes / Stefan Rebenich -- The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World : Global and Local Perspectives / Mark Humphries -- Mobility and the Traces of Empire / Blake Leyerle -- Information and Political Power / Claire Sotinel -- Mediterranean Cities / S.T. Loseby -- The Archaeological Record : Problems of Interpretation / Olof Brandt -- Inscribing Identity : The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity / Dennis E. Trout -- Gender and the Fall of Rome / Kate Cooper -- Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West / Judith Evans-Grubbs -- The Church, the Living, and the Dead / Éric Rebillard -- The Value of a Good Education : Libanius and Public Authority / Raffaella Cribiore -- Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Exegesis without End : Forms, Methods and Functions of Biblical Commentaries / Karla Pollmann -- Tradition, Innovation and Epistolary Mores / Jennifer Ebbeler -- Verbal and Visual Representation : Image, Text, Person and Power / James A. Francis -- Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art / Felicity Harley -- The Discourse of Later Latin / Philip Burton -- Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt / Malcolm Choat -- Late Antique Historiography : A Brief History of Time / David Woods -- Law in Practice / Caroline Humfress -- The Mirror of Jordanes : Concepts of the Barbarian Then and Now / Andrew Gillett -- Beyond the Northern Frontiers / Guy Halsall -- From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West / John Vanderspoel -- Rome and the Sasanid Empire : Confrontation and Coexistence / Jan Willem Drijvers -- Syria, Syriac, Syrian : Negotiating East and West / Christine Shepardson -- Syria and the Arabs / David Cook -- The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610--c. AD 750) / Andrew Marsham -- Christianization, Secularization and the Transformation of Public Life / Richard Lim -- The Political Church : Religion and the State / Michael Gaddis -- The Late Antique Bishop : Image and Reality / Rita Lizzi Testa -- The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" : of the Church / Thomas Graumann -- Defining Sacred Boundaries : Jewish-Christian Relations / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Pagans in a Christian Empire / Neil McLynn -- "Not of this World" : The Invention of Monasticism / Daniel F. Caner.

Call Number

DE86

ISBN

• 9781405119801 (hardcover : alk. paper
• 1405119802 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008021457

OCLC

228300848

Title

A companion to late Antiquity / edited by Philip Rousseau ; with the assistance of Jutta Raithel.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-699) and index.

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Table of contents

Table of contents

Cover

Chronological Term

To 476

Added Author

Rousseau, Philip.

Raithel, Jutta.

Other Form:

Online version: Companion to late Antiquity. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 (OCoLC)755257705

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR DE86 .C63 2009