Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1

William Bowden is Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in the archaeology of Roman and late antique Greece and Albania. Recent publications include Epirus Vetus: the Archaeology of a Late Antique Province (2003).Adam Gutteridge is the Artemis A.W. & Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. His Ph.D. (Cambridge University, 2005) considered perceptions of time and temporality in late antique culture.Carlos Machado is a doctoral student in Ancient History, Linacre College at Oxford University, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science (CNPQ). He is working on the political use of space in late antique Rome, and the appropriation of urban space by the senatorial aristocracy. He currently holds a scholarship at the British School at Rome.

• Acknowledgements List of contributors Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity: an Introduction, Adam Gutteridge and Carlos MachadoBibliographic EssaysPolitical Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay, Luke LavanSocial Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay, Lukas SchachnerThe Roman State: From Identity To PolicyConstructing Roman Identities in Late Antiquity? Material Culture on the Western Frontier, Ellen Swift Coins and Politics in the Late Roman World, Richard Reece The Emperor And His MonumentsCivil War and Public Dissent: the State Monuments of the Decentralised Roman Empire, Emanuel MayerBuilding the Past: Monuments and Memory in the Forum Romanum, Carlos MachadoThe City: Social And Political ChangeFora and Agorai in Mediterranean Cities during the 4th and 5th c. A.D., Luke Lavan The Control of Public Space and the Transformation of an Early Medieval town: a Re-examination of the Case of Brescia, Gian Pietro BrogioloChurches And PowerArchitecture and Power: Churches in Northern Italy from the 4th to the 6th c., Gisella Cantino WataghinDark Age Rome: Towards an Interactive Topography, Kate Cooper, Julia Hilner and Conrad LeyserA New Temple for Byzantium: Anicia Juliana, King Solomon and the gilded ceiling in the Church of St Polyeuktos in Constantinople, Jonathan BardillThe Middle ClassArtisans and Traders in Late Antiquity: Exploring the Limits of Archaeological Evidence, Enrico ZaniniMiddle Class Houses in Late Antiquity, Simon EllisThe Poor In TextsConstructed and Consumed: Everyday Life of the Poor in 4th c. Cappadocia, Susan HolmanPoverty and Society in the World of John Chrysostom, Wendy MayerThe Poor And ArchaeologyThe Urban Poor: Finding the Marginalised, Steve RoskamsRural Impoverishment in Northern Gaul at the End of Antiquity: the Contribution of Archaeology, Paul Van Ossel Socio-Cultural ChangeSome Aspects of Social and Cultural Time in Late Antiquity, Adam GutteridgeSocial Transformation in the 6th-9th c. East, John Haldon