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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
Edited by Scott Johnson
1312 pages
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20 Black and white illustrations; 15 line drawings
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171 x 247mm
978-0-19-533693-1
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Hardback
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01 November 2012
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- One of the first collected volumes on Late Antiquity on the market
- Cutting-edge approach to questions of the transformation between the classical and medieval worlds and Christian-Muslim relations
- Collects scholarship from a diverse pool of literary critics, religious historians, art historians, and specialists in near-eastern studies
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this handbook is unparalleled among comparable
surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, Ireland, and Scandinavia in the West. Furthemore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.Readership: Graduate students and scholars
from Classics, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Byzantine Studies, and Renaissance Studies.
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Edited by Scott Johnson Scott Johnson is Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, and the author of 'The Life and Miracles of Thekla, A Literary Study' (Harvard), and editor of 'Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism' (Ashgate). Contributors:
Gianfranco Agosti
Jairus Banaji
Anne Boud'hors
Craig H. Caldwel
Christopher Celenza
Brian Croke
Andrew Gillett
Tim Greenwood
Cam Grey
Petre Guran
David M. Gwynn
John Haldon
Kyle Harper
Jill Harries
Peregrine Horden
Robert Hoyland
Herve Inglebert
Aaron Johnson
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Michael Kulikowski
Etienne de la Vaissiere
Michael Maas
Ralph Mathisen
Jaclyn Maxwell
Scott McGill
Arietta Papaconstantinou
Glenn Peers
Christian Julien Robin
Samuel Rubenson
Stephen J. Shoemaker
Gregory Smith
Kevin Uhalde
Joel Walker
Edward Watts
Susan Wessel
Philip Wood
Ann Marie Yasin
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Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Preface: Scoff F. Johnson
Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity, Herve Inglebert
Part I. Geographies and Peoples
1: Michael Kulikowski: The Western Kingdoms
2: Michael Maas: Barbarians: Problems and Approaches
3: Craig H. Caldwell III: The Balkans
4: Tim Greenwood: Armenia
5: Etienne de la Vaissiere: Central Asia and the Silk Road
6: Philip Wood: Syriac and the 'Syrians'
7: Arietta Papaconstantinou: Egypt
8: Anne Boud'hors: The Coptic Tradition
9: Christian Julien Robin: Ethiopia and Arabia
Part II. Literary and Philosophical Cultures
10: Scott McGill: Latin Poetry
11: Gianfranco Agosti: Greek Poetry
12: Brian Croke: Historiography
13: Aaron Johnson: Hellenism and its Discontents
14: Edward Watts: Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing
15: Samuel Rubenson: Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage
16: Gregory Smith: Physics and Metaphysics
17: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson: Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology
III. Law, State, and Social Structures
18: Jairus Banaji: Economic Trajectories
19: Cam Grey: Agriculture and Other, 'Rural Matters'
20: Kyle Harper: Marriage and Family
21: Peregrine Horden: Health, Disease, and Hospitals: The Case of the 'Sacred House'
22: Ralph Mathisen: Concepts of Citizenship
23: Kevin Uhalde: Justice and Equality
24: Jill Harries: Roman Law and Legal Culture
25: Andrew Gillett: Communication: Use and Reuse
Part IV. Religions and Religious Identity
26: Jaclyn Maxwell: Paganism and Christianization
27: David M. Gwynn: Episcopal Leadership
28: Susan Wessel: Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery
29: Ann Marie Yasin: Sacred Space and Visual Art
30: Glenn Peers: Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer
31: Joel Walker: From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East across Sasanian Persia
32: Robert Hoyland: Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion
33: Stephen J. Shoemaker: Muhammad and the Qur'an
Part V. Late Antiquity in Perspective
34: John Haldon: Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World
35: Petre Guran: Late Antiquity in Byzantium
36: Christopher Celenza: Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
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