Research Catalog

Title

Late antiquity in contemporary debate / edited by Rita Lizzi Testa.

Author

International Congress of Historical Sciences (22nd : 2015 : Jinan, Shandong Sheng, China), sponsoring body.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Lizzi Testa, Rita

Description

xlix, 229 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Late Antiquity, once known only as the period of protracted decline in the ancient world (Bas-Empire), has now become a major research area. In recent years, a wide-ranging historiographic debate on Late Antiquity has also begun. Replacing Gibbon's categories of decline and decadence with those of continuity and transformation has not only brought to the fore the concept of the Late Roman period, but has made the alleged hiatus between the Roman, Byzantine and Mediaeval ages less important, while also driving to the margins the question of the end of the Roman Empire. This has broadened the scope of research on Late Antiquity enormously and made the issue of periodization of crucial significance. The resulting debate has escaped the confines of Europe and now embraces almost all historiographic cultures around the world. This book sheds new light on this debate, collecting papers given at the 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH/ICHS) in Jinan, China. They recall key moments of the discovery of the world of Late Antiquity, and show how it is possible to reach a definition of an age, analysing different sectors of history, using disparate sources, and with the guidance of very varied interpretative models."--

Subject

• History, Ancient
• Civilization, Ancient
• Civilization, Classical
• Histoire ancienne
• Civilisation ancienne
• Spätantike
• Kultur

Note

• Collected papers given at the 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH/ICHS) in Jinan, China, August 23-29, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Empire and aftermath / Clifford Ando -- Crisis, transition, transformation: the end of the Roman world and the usefulness of useless categories / Pablo C. Diaz -- Transformation and transition in the art of late antiquity / Jutta Dresken-Weiland -- Defining late antiquity through epigraphy? / Ignazio Tantillo -- Reddite quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari: the late Roman empire and the dream of fair taxation / Gilles Bransbourg -- Peasant and slave in late antique North Africa, c. 100-600 CE / Noel Lenski -- What is geo-ecclesiology: defining elements applied to late antiquity (fourth-sixth centuries) / Philippe Blaudeau -- The historical path of "late antiquity": from transformation to rupture / Jean-Michel Carrié -- Concluding remarks: the birth of a new short late antiquity / Hervé Inglebert.

ISBN

• 9781443843089
• 1443843083

OCLC

• 965495150
• SCSB-12311191

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library