A Companion to Late Antiquity
Herausgegeben von Rousseau, Philip
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39 essays from some of the world s foremost scholars of the era Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic,…mehr
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
Comprises 39 essays from some of the world s foremost scholars of the era
Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
Comprises 39 essays from some of the world s foremost scholars of the era
Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
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- Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 736
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 39mm
- Gewicht: 1108g
- ISBN-13: 9781118255315
- ISBN-10: 1118255313
- Artikelnr.: 35000363
- Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 736
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 39mm
- Gewicht: 1108g
- ISBN-13: 9781118255315
- ISBN-10: 1118255313
- Artikelnr.: 35000363
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hägg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).
List of Figures ix List of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Preface and
Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xxiii 1 Approaching Late
Antiquity 1 Wendy Mayer PART I The View from the Future 15 2 The Byzantine
Late Antiquity 17 Stratis Papaioannou 3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
29 Conrad Leyser 4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian
Culture and the End of Antiquity 43 Mark Vessey 5 Narrating Decline and
Fall 59 Clifford Ando 6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77 Stefan Rebenich
PART II Land and People 93 7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique
World: Global and Local Perspectives 97 Mark Humphries 8 Mobility and the
Traces of Empire 110 Blake Leyerle 9 Information and Political Power 125
Claire Sotinel 10 Mediterranean Cities 139 S. T. Loseby 11 The
Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156 Olof Brandt 12
Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170
Dennis E. Trout 13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187 Kate Cooper 14 Marriage
and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201 Judith Evans-Grubbs 15
The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220 Eric Rebillard PART III Image and
Word 231 16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority
233 Raffaella Cribiore 17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity
246 Kim Haines-Eitzen 18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and
Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258 Karla Pollmann 19 Tradition,
Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270 Jennifer Ebbeler 20 Visual and Verbal
Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285 James A. Francis 21
Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306 Felicity Harley 22
The Discourse of Later Latin 327 Philip Burton 23 Language and Culture in
Late Antique Egypt 342 Malcolm Choat 24 Late Antique Historiography: A
Brief History of Time 357 David Woods PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond
373 25 Law in Practice 377 Caroline Humfress 26 The Mirror of Jordanes:
Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392 Andrew Gillett 27 Beyond the
Northern Frontiers 409 Guy Halsall 28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late
Antique West 426 John Vanderspoel 29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire:
Confrontation and Coexistence 441 Jan Willem Drijvers 30 Syria, Syriac,
Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455 Christine Shepardson 31 Syria and the
Arabs 467 David Cook 32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late
Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479 Andrew Marsham PART V The Sacred 493 33
Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497
Richard Lim 34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512 Michael
Gaddis 35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525 Rita Lizzi Testa
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539 Thomas
Graumann 37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Relations 556
Naomi Koltun-Fromm 38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572 Neil McLynn 39 "Not
of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588 Daniel F. Caner
Bibliography 601 Index 700
Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xxiii 1 Approaching Late
Antiquity 1 Wendy Mayer PART I The View from the Future 15 2 The Byzantine
Late Antiquity 17 Stratis Papaioannou 3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
29 Conrad Leyser 4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian
Culture and the End of Antiquity 43 Mark Vessey 5 Narrating Decline and
Fall 59 Clifford Ando 6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77 Stefan Rebenich
PART II Land and People 93 7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique
World: Global and Local Perspectives 97 Mark Humphries 8 Mobility and the
Traces of Empire 110 Blake Leyerle 9 Information and Political Power 125
Claire Sotinel 10 Mediterranean Cities 139 S. T. Loseby 11 The
Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156 Olof Brandt 12
Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170
Dennis E. Trout 13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187 Kate Cooper 14 Marriage
and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201 Judith Evans-Grubbs 15
The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220 Eric Rebillard PART III Image and
Word 231 16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority
233 Raffaella Cribiore 17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity
246 Kim Haines-Eitzen 18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and
Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258 Karla Pollmann 19 Tradition,
Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270 Jennifer Ebbeler 20 Visual and Verbal
Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285 James A. Francis 21
Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306 Felicity Harley 22
The Discourse of Later Latin 327 Philip Burton 23 Language and Culture in
Late Antique Egypt 342 Malcolm Choat 24 Late Antique Historiography: A
Brief History of Time 357 David Woods PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond
373 25 Law in Practice 377 Caroline Humfress 26 The Mirror of Jordanes:
Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392 Andrew Gillett 27 Beyond the
Northern Frontiers 409 Guy Halsall 28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late
Antique West 426 John Vanderspoel 29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire:
Confrontation and Coexistence 441 Jan Willem Drijvers 30 Syria, Syriac,
Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455 Christine Shepardson 31 Syria and the
Arabs 467 David Cook 32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late
Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479 Andrew Marsham PART V The Sacred 493 33
Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497
Richard Lim 34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512 Michael
Gaddis 35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525 Rita Lizzi Testa
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539 Thomas
Graumann 37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Relations 556
Naomi Koltun-Fromm 38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572 Neil McLynn 39 "Not
of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588 Daniel F. Caner
Bibliography 601 Index 700
List of Figures ix List of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Preface and
Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xxiii 1 Approaching Late
Antiquity 1 Wendy Mayer PART I The View from the Future 15 2 The Byzantine
Late Antiquity 17 Stratis Papaioannou 3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
29 Conrad Leyser 4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian
Culture and the End of Antiquity 43 Mark Vessey 5 Narrating Decline and
Fall 59 Clifford Ando 6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77 Stefan Rebenich
PART II Land and People 93 7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique
World: Global and Local Perspectives 97 Mark Humphries 8 Mobility and the
Traces of Empire 110 Blake Leyerle 9 Information and Political Power 125
Claire Sotinel 10 Mediterranean Cities 139 S. T. Loseby 11 The
Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156 Olof Brandt 12
Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170
Dennis E. Trout 13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187 Kate Cooper 14 Marriage
and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201 Judith Evans-Grubbs 15
The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220 Eric Rebillard PART III Image and
Word 231 16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority
233 Raffaella Cribiore 17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity
246 Kim Haines-Eitzen 18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and
Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258 Karla Pollmann 19 Tradition,
Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270 Jennifer Ebbeler 20 Visual and Verbal
Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285 James A. Francis 21
Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306 Felicity Harley 22
The Discourse of Later Latin 327 Philip Burton 23 Language and Culture in
Late Antique Egypt 342 Malcolm Choat 24 Late Antique Historiography: A
Brief History of Time 357 David Woods PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond
373 25 Law in Practice 377 Caroline Humfress 26 The Mirror of Jordanes:
Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392 Andrew Gillett 27 Beyond the
Northern Frontiers 409 Guy Halsall 28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late
Antique West 426 John Vanderspoel 29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire:
Confrontation and Coexistence 441 Jan Willem Drijvers 30 Syria, Syriac,
Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455 Christine Shepardson 31 Syria and the
Arabs 467 David Cook 32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late
Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479 Andrew Marsham PART V The Sacred 493 33
Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497
Richard Lim 34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512 Michael
Gaddis 35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525 Rita Lizzi Testa
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539 Thomas
Graumann 37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Relations 556
Naomi Koltun-Fromm 38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572 Neil McLynn 39 "Not
of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588 Daniel F. Caner
Bibliography 601 Index 700
Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xxiii 1 Approaching Late
Antiquity 1 Wendy Mayer PART I The View from the Future 15 2 The Byzantine
Late Antiquity 17 Stratis Papaioannou 3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
29 Conrad Leyser 4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian
Culture and the End of Antiquity 43 Mark Vessey 5 Narrating Decline and
Fall 59 Clifford Ando 6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77 Stefan Rebenich
PART II Land and People 93 7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique
World: Global and Local Perspectives 97 Mark Humphries 8 Mobility and the
Traces of Empire 110 Blake Leyerle 9 Information and Political Power 125
Claire Sotinel 10 Mediterranean Cities 139 S. T. Loseby 11 The
Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156 Olof Brandt 12
Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170
Dennis E. Trout 13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187 Kate Cooper 14 Marriage
and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201 Judith Evans-Grubbs 15
The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220 Eric Rebillard PART III Image and
Word 231 16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority
233 Raffaella Cribiore 17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity
246 Kim Haines-Eitzen 18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and
Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258 Karla Pollmann 19 Tradition,
Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270 Jennifer Ebbeler 20 Visual and Verbal
Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285 James A. Francis 21
Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306 Felicity Harley 22
The Discourse of Later Latin 327 Philip Burton 23 Language and Culture in
Late Antique Egypt 342 Malcolm Choat 24 Late Antique Historiography: A
Brief History of Time 357 David Woods PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond
373 25 Law in Practice 377 Caroline Humfress 26 The Mirror of Jordanes:
Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392 Andrew Gillett 27 Beyond the
Northern Frontiers 409 Guy Halsall 28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late
Antique West 426 John Vanderspoel 29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire:
Confrontation and Coexistence 441 Jan Willem Drijvers 30 Syria, Syriac,
Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455 Christine Shepardson 31 Syria and the
Arabs 467 David Cook 32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late
Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479 Andrew Marsham PART V The Sacred 493 33
Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497
Richard Lim 34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512 Michael
Gaddis 35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525 Rita Lizzi Testa
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539 Thomas
Graumann 37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Relations 556
Naomi Koltun-Fromm 38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572 Neil McLynn 39 "Not
of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588 Daniel F. Caner
Bibliography 601 Index 700