A Companion to Late AntiquityPhilip Rousseau 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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Contents
Renaissance | |
CHAPTER FIVE Narrating Decline and Fall | |
CHAPTER SIX Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Textual Communities | |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Tradition Innovation | |
CHAPTER TWENTY Visual and Verbal | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Christianity and | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO The Discourse of Later | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE Language and Culture | |
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR Late Antique | |
Empire Kingdom and Beyond | |
Land and People | |
Eternal Rome and Its Rivals | |
Grand Narratives and Regional Perspectives | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Mobility and the Traces of Empire | |
CHAPTER NINE Information and Political Power | |
CHAPTER TEN Mediterranean Cities | |
Architecture and Symbolism | |
The Latin | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gender and the Fall of Rome | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Marriage and Family | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Church the Living and | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Value ofa Good | |
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN Beyond the Northern | |
CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT From Empire | |
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE Rome and the Sasanid | |
Negotiating | |
Ephesus Chalcedon | |
CHAPTER THIRTYONE Syria and the Arabs | |
CHAPTER THIRTYTWO The Early Caliphate | |
CHAPTER THIRTYTHREE Christianization | |
CHAPTER THIRTYSIX The Conduct of Theology | |
CHAPTER THIRTYSEVEN Defining Sacred | |
CHAPTER THIRTYEIGHT Pagans in a Christian | |
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