Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University.

• 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

The professional historian will use this book as a handy source of reference. The general reader will enjoy it as providing a fascinating account of a period of history which is not well known.