Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Maps x
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xviii
List of Abbreviations xxiii
1 Approaching Late Antiquity 1 Wendy Mayer
PART I The View from the Future 15
2 The Byzantine Late Antiquity 17 Stratis Papaioannou
3 Late Antiquity in the Medieval West 29 Conrad Leyser
4 Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity 43 Mark Vessey
5 Narrating Decline and Fall 59 Clifford Ando
6 Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes 77 Stefan Rebenich
PART II Land and People 93
7 The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives 97 Mark Humphries
8 Mobility and the Traces of Empire 110 Blake Leyerle
9 Information and Political Power 125 Claire Sotinel
10 Mediterranean Cities 139 S. T. Loseby
11 The Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation 156 Olof Brandt
12 Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity 170 Dennis E. Trout
13 Gender and the Fall of Rome 187 Kate Cooper
14 Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West 201 Judith Evans-Grubbs
15 The Church, the Living, and the Dead 220 Eric Rebillard
PART III Image and Word 231
16 The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority 233 Raffaella Cribiore
17 Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity 246 Kim Haines-Eitzen
18 Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries 258 Karla Pollmann
19 Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores 270 Jennifer Ebbeler
20 Visual and Verbal Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power 285 James A. Francis
21 Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art 306 Felicity Harley
22 The Discourse of Later Latin 327 Philip Burton
23 Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt 342 Malcolm Choat
24 Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time 357 David Woods
PART IV Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond 373
25 Law in Practice 377 Caroline Humfress
26 The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now 392 Andrew Gillett
27 Beyond the Northern Frontiers 409 Guy Halsall
28 From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West 426 John Vanderspoel
29 Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Confrontation and Coexistence 441 Jan Willem Drijvers
30 Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West 455 Christine Shepardson
31 Syria and the Arabs 467 David Cook
32 The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610-c. AD 750) 479 Andrew Marsham
PART V The Sacred 493
33 Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life 497 Richard Lim
34 The Political Church: Religion and the State 512 Michael Gaddis
35 The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality 525 Rita Lizzi Testa
36 The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" of the Church 539 Thomas Graumann
37 Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish–Christian Relations 556 Naomi Koltun-Fromm
38 Pagans in a Christian Empire 572 Neil McLynn
39 "Not of This World": The Invention of Monasticism 588 Daniel F. Caner
Bibliography 601
Index 700
