The Oxford handbook of late antiquity
By: edited by Scott F. Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1247
ISBN-13: 9780195336931
Subjects: Civilization, Greco-Roman; Civilization; Medieval Civilization
Other titles: Handbook of late antiquity
Description: Late antiquity extends from the accession of the Christian emperor Constantine to the rise of Muhammad and early Islam (ca. 300-700 AD). This volume takea account of the scholarship published in the last 30 years and provide a foundational synthesis for students of late antiquity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : late antique conceptions of late antiquity / Hervé Inglebert; title: The western kingdoms / Michael Kulikowski; title: Barbarians : problems and approaches / Michael Maas; title: The Balkans / Craig H. Caldwell III; title: Armenia / Tim Greenwood; title: Central Asia and the silk road / Étienne de la Vaissière; title: Syriac and the Syrians / Philip Wood; title: Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou; title: The Coptic tradition / Anne Boud'hors; title: Ethiopia and Arabia / Christian Julien Robin; title: Latin poetry / Scott McGill; title: Greek poetry / Gianfranco Agosti; title: Historiography / Brian Croke; title: Hellenism and its discontents / Aaron Johnson; title: Education : speaking, thinking, and socializing / Edward Watts; title: Monasticism and the philosophical heritage / Samuel Rubenson; title: Physics and metaphysics / Gregory Smith; title: Travel, cartography, and cosmology / Scott F. Johnson; title: Economic trajectories / Jairus Banaji; title: Agriculture and other rural matters / Cam Grey; title: Marriage and family / Kyle Harper; title: Health, disease, and hospitals : the case of the sacred house / Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway; title: Concepts of citizenship / Ralph Mathisen; title: Justice and equality / Kevin Uhalde; title: Roman law and legal culture / Jill Harries; title: Communication : use and reuse / Andrew Gillett.; title: Paganism and Christianization / Jaclyn Maxwell; title: Episcopal leadership / David M. Gwynn, Royal Holloway; title: Theological argumentation : the case of forgery / Susan Wessel; title: Sacred space and visual art / Ann Marie Yasin; title: Object relations : theorizing the late antique viewer / Glenn Peers; title: From Nisibis to Xian : the church of the east across Sasanian Persia / Joel Walker; title: Early Islam as a late antique religion / Robert Hoyland; title: Muhammad and the Quran / Stephen J. Shoemaker; title: Comparative state formation : the later Roman Empire in the wider world / John Haldon; title: Late antiquity in Byzantium / Petre Guran; title: Late antiquity and the Italian Renaissance / Christopher Celenza.