Approaching Late Antiquity
The Transformation from Early to Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Description
What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religion, Christian church, Greek and Latin literature, the army, the law, the provinces, settlement, and the economy. Approaching Late Antiquity is an illustrated collection of fifteen original essays on the later Roman world written by a galaxy of internationally known scholars.
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Table of contents
- Introduction, Simon Swain
- Economic Change and the Transition to Late Antiquity, Richard Duncan Jones
- A New Golden Age? The Northern Praefactura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian, Emanuele Papi
- Transition and Change in Diocletian’s Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late Third Century, Colin Adams
- Roman Law 200 to 400 AD: From Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat?, Tony Honoré
- Roman Citizenship and Roman Law in the Late Empire, Peter Garnsey
- Emperors and Armies, AD 235-395, Michael Whitby
- Romanitas and the Church of Rome, Mark Edwards
- Pagan and Christian Monotheism in the Age of Constantine, Mark Edwards
- The Transformations of Imperial Church going in the Fourth Century, Neil McLynn
- Late Antique Art: the Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic, Jas Elsner
- Painted Hellenes: Mummy Portraits from Late Roman Egypt, Susan Walker
- Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity, Alan Cameron
- Sophists and Emperors: the Case of Libanius, Simon Swain
- Philosophy as a Profession in Late Antiquity, John Dillon
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