A Companion to Late AntiquityPhilip Rousseau, Jutta Raithel An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
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Approaching Late Antiquity | 1 |
The View from the Future | 15 |
Renaissance Views of Early Christian | 43 |
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