Contributor
Rousseau, Philip.
Imprint:Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Descriptionxxiv, 709 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Note:Approaching late antiquity / Wendy Mayer -- PART I. THE VIEW FROM THE FUTURE. The Byzantine late antiquity / Stratis Papaioannou -- 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.
Note:PART II. LAND AND PEOPLE. 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 / Eric Rebillard.
Note:PART III. IMAGE AND WORD. 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 -- Visual and verbal 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.
Note:PART IV. EMPIRE, KINGDOM, AND BEYOND. 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.
Note:PART V. THE SACRED. 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [601]-699) and index.
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