Author(s): Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 1674
Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Preface: On the Uniqueness of Late Antiquity......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 34
List of Abbreviations......Page 37
Note on Transliteration......Page 43
Contributors......Page 45
Maps......Page 48
Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity......Page 54
Part I. Geographies and Peoples......Page 83
1. The Western Kingdoms......Page 84
2. Barbarians: Problems and Approaches......Page 120
3. The Balkans......Page 160
4. Armenia......Page 188
5. Central Asia and the Silk Road......Page 221
6. Syriac and the “Syrians”......Page 255
7. Egypt......Page 284
8. The Coptic Tradition......Page 321
9. Arabia and Ethiopia......Page 350
Part II. Literary and Philosophical Cultures......Page 462
10. Latin Poetry......Page 463
11. Greek Poetry......Page 497
12. Historiography......Page 552
13. Hellenism and Its Discontents......Page 590
14. Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing......Page 627
15. Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage......Page 652
16. Physics and Metaphysics......Page 684
17. Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology......Page 746
Part III. Law, State, and Social Structures......Page 787
18. Economic Trajectories......Page 788
19. Concerning Rural Matters......Page 823
20. Marriage and Family......Page 877
21. Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital......Page 940
22. Concepts of Citizenship......Page 975
23. Justice and Equality......Page 1000
24. Roman Law and Legal Culture......Page 1031
25. Communication in Late Antiquity: Use and Reuse......Page 1063
Part IV. Religions and Religious Identity......Page 1101
26. Paganism and Christianization......Page 1102
27. Episcopal Leadership......Page 1135
28. Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery......Page 1186
29. Sacred Space and Visual Art......Page 1208
30. Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer......Page 1251
31. From Nisibis to Xi’an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia......Page 1280
32. Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion......Page 1357
33. Muhammad and the Qur’ān......Page 1388
Part V. Late Antiquity in Perspective......Page 1428
34. Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World......Page 1429
35. Late Antiquity in Byzantium......Page 1474
36. Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance......Page 1503
Index......Page 1537
Plates......Page 1665
