ISBN:

• 9780195336931
• 9780190277536
• 0195336933
• 019027753X

Description: xli, 1247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

• Handbook of late antiquity
• Late antiquity

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The Western Kingdoms / Michael Kulikowski
• Barbarians: Problems and Approaches / Michael Maas
• The Balkans / Craig H. Caldwell III
• Armenia / Tim Greenwood
• Central Asia and the Silk Road / Étienne de la Vaissière
• Syriac and the "Syrians" / Phillip Wood
• Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• The Coptic Tradition / Anne Boud'hors
• Arabia and Ethiopia / Christian Julien Robin
• Latin Poetry / Scott McGill
• Greek Poetry / Gianfranco Agosti
• Historiography / Brian Croke
• Hellenism and Its Discontents / Aaron P. Johnson
• Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing / Edward Watts
• Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage / Samuel Rubenson
• Physics and Metaphysics / Gregory Smith
• Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
• Economic Trajectories / Jarius Banaji
• Concerning Rural Matters / Cam Grey
• Marriage and Family / Kyle Harper
• Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital / Peregrine Horden
• Concepts of Citizenship / Ralph W. Mathisen
• Justice and Equality / Kevin Uhalde
• Roman Law and Legal Culture / Jill Harries
• Communication in Late Antiquity: Use and Reuse / Andrew Gillett
• Paganism and Christianization / Jaclyn Maxwell
• Episcopal Leadership / David M. Gwynn
• Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery / Susan Wessel
• Sacred Space and Visual Art / Ann Marie Yasin
• Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer / Glenn Peers
• From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia / Joel Walker
• Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion / Robert Hoyland
• Muḥammad and the Qur'ān / Stephen J, Shoemaker
• Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World / John Haldon
• Late Antiquity in Byzantium
• Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance / Christopher S. Celenza.

Series: Oxford handbooks.

Subjects:

• Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- 527-1081.
• Civilization, Greco-Roman.
• Civilization, Medieval.
• Rome -- Civilization.

Other Authors: Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, 1976- editor.