A Companion to Late Antiquity

Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

I Definitions: 'Companion' and 'Late Antiquity'

Philip Rousseau

II Approaching Late Antiquity

Wendy Mayer

The View from the Future

III The Byzantine Late Antiquity

Stratis Papaioannou

IV Late Antiquity in the Medieval West

Conrad Leyser

VCities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity

Mark Vessey

VI Narrating Decline and Fall

Clifford Ando

VII Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes

Stefan RebenichLand and People

VIII The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives

Mark Humphries

IX The Economic Underpinnings of the Late Antique World

Noel Lenski

X Mobility and Traces of Empire

Blake Leyerle

XI News in Late Antiquity: Political Control and Cultural Communication

Claire Sotinel

XII Late Antiquity and Gender

Kate Cooper

XIII Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West

Judith Evans Grubbs

XIV The Church, the Living, and the Dead

Éric Rebillard

Image and Word

XV The Archaeological Record: Problems of InterpretationOlof Brandt

XVI Inscribing Identity: the Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late AntiquityDennis Trout

XVII Verbal and Visual Representation: Image, Text, Person, and PowerJames A. Francis

XVIII Another chapter on art (not wholly certain this will materialise)

XIX Textual Communities in Late-Ancient Christianity

Kim Haines-Eitzen

XX Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores in Late Antiquity

Jennifer Ebbeler

XXI The Discourse of Later Latin

Philip Burton

XXII The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority

Raffaella Cribiore

XXIII Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt

Malcolm Choat

XXIV Late Antique Historiography: a Brief History of Time

David Woods

Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond

XXV Mediterranean CitiesSimon Loseby

XXVI Law in PracticeCaroline

Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hägg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).

"Academics and researchers in any of the fields it covers will find this a valuable vade mecum to scholarly debate in both their own and peripheral subjects; undergraduates may use it selectively to enrich or clarify particular areas of study." -- Reference Reviews, January 2010

"It is not a work of reference in the traditional sense: Rousseau compares it to a journey in the company of enthusiastic experts guiding the reader through their favourite areas. By including many younger contributors, and others in mid-career, enthusiasm, and a sense of the excitement of the (as yet) unexplored, are guaranteed...the Companion maintains a generally high level of expertise and informed analysis throughout: the contributors have been well chosen. Production and editing are excellent, and there is an intelligently constructed index...researchers and specialists cannot afford to neglect this richly rewarding book." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, February, 2010)
 
"This is a feast of a volume, but it 'consolidates n academic field in its own right' (p. 12) rather than opening new horizons. That was Peter Brown's achievement." (Journal of Ecclesiastical History, April 2010)
 
"This companion digests the latest research, and is a worthwhile addition to any reference library."(CHOICE, 2009)
 
"Academics and researchers in any of the fields it covers will find this a valuable vade mecum to scholarly debate in both their own and peripheral subjects; undergraduates may use it selectively to enrich or clarify particular areas of study." (Reference Reviews, January 2010)