The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, Ireland, and Scandinavia in the West. Furthemore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines.
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
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Publisher & Imprint:
Oxford University Press Inc
City:
New York
Pages:
1312
More info:
height 248 mm
width 189 mm
weight 2258 gr
thickness 63 mm
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Age recommended:
College/higher education
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 930.5
Library of Congress Subject: Civilization, Medieval
Record updated at:
23 May, 2013
time:
15:56
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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; PREFACE: SCOFF F. JOHNSON ; INTRODUCTION: LATE ANTIQUE CONCEPTIONS OF LATE ANTIQUITY, HERVE INGLEBERT ; PART I. GEOGRAPHIES AND PEOPLES ; 1. The Western Kingdoms ; 2. Barbarians: Problems and Approaches ; 3. The Balkans ; 4. Armenia ; 5. Central Asia and the Silk Road ; 6. Syriac and the 'Syrians' ; 7. Egypt ; 8. The Coptic Tradition ; 9. Ethiopia and Arabia ; PART II. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURES ; 10. Latin Poetry ; 11. Greek Poetry ; 12. Historiography ; 13. Hellenism and its Discontents ; 14. Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing ; 15. Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage ; 16. Physics and Metaphysics ; 17. Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology ; III. LAW, STATE, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES ; 18. Economic Trajectories ; 19. Agriculture and Other, 'Rural Matters' ; 20. Marriage and Family ; 21. Health, Disease, and Hospitals: The Case of the 'Sacred House' ; 22. Concepts of Citizenship ; 23. Justice and Equality ; 24. Roman Law and Legal Culture ; 25. Communication: Use and Reuse ; PART IV. RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY ; 26. Paganism and Christianization ; 27. Episcopal Leadership ; 28. Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery ; 29. Sacred Space and Visual Art ; 30. Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer ; 31. From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East across Sasanian Persia ; 32. Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion ; 33. Muhammad and the Qur'an ; PART V. LATE ANTIQUITY IN PERSPECTIVE ; 34. Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World ; 35. Late Antiquity in Byzantium ; 36. Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
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