The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvScott Johnson,Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

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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 also providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-11-12
Mått246 x 173 x 61 mm
Vikt2 109 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Handbooks
Antal sidor1 294
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190277536

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Acknowledgments ; List of Contributors ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Scott F. Johnson, Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks ; Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity ; Herve Inglebert, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Defense (Paris X) ; Part I. Geographies and Peoples ; 1. The Western Kingdoms ; Michael Kulikowski, Pennsylvania State University ; 2. Barbarians: Problems and Approaches ; Michael Maas, Rice University ; 3. The Balkans ; Craig H. Caldwell III, University of Georgia ; 4. Armenia ; Tim Greenwood, St Andrews University ; 5. Central Asia and the Silk Road ; Etienne de la Vaissiere, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris ; 6. Syriac and the "Syrians" ; Philip Wood, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University ; 7. Egypt ; Arietta Papaconstantinou, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne ; 8. The Coptic Tradition ; Anne Boud'hors, Centre national de la scientifique (CNRS) ; 9. Ethiopia and Arabia ; Christian Julien Robin, College de France ; Part II. Literary and Philosophical Cultures ; 10. Latin Poetry ; Scott McGill, Rice University ; 11. Greek Poetry ; Gianfranco Agosti, Universita degli Studi di Udine ; 12. Historiography ; Brian Croke, Macquarie University and University of Sydney ; 13. Hellenism and its Discontents ; Aaron Johnson, Lee University ; 14. Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing ; Edward Watts, Indiana University ; 15. Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage ; Samuel Rubenson, Lunds Universitet ; 16. Physics and Metaphysics ; Gregory Smith, Central Michigan University ; 17. Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology ; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks ; III. Law, State, and Social Structures ; 18. Economic Trajectories ; Jairus Banaji, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) ; 19. Agriculture and Other "Rural Matters" ; Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania ; 20. Marriage and Family ; Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma ; 21. Health, Disease, and Hospitals: The Case of the "Sacred House" ; Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London ; 22. Concepts of Citizenship ; Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ; 23. Justice and Equality ; Kevin Uhalde, Ohio University ; 24. Roman Law and Legal Culture ; Jill Harries, St Andrews University ; 25. Communication: Use and Reuse ; Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University ; Part IV. Religions and Religious Identity ; 26. Paganism and Christianization ; Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio University ; 27. Episcopal Leadership ; David M. Gwynn, Royal Holloway, University of London ; 28. Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery ; Susan Wessel, Catholic University of America ; 29. Sacred Space and Visual Art ; Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California ; 30. Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer ; Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin ; 31. From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East across Sasanian Persia ; Joel Walker, University of Washington ; 32. Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion ; Robert Hoyland, Oriental Institute, Oxford University ; 33. Muhammad and the Qur'an ; Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon ; Part V. Late Antiquity in Perspective ; 34. Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World ; John Haldon, Princeton University ; 35. Late Antiquity in Byzantium ; Petre Guran, Institute of South East European Studies, Bucharest ; 36. Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance ; Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University