Approaching late antiquity : the transformation from early to late empire /
What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these questions embrace the fields of cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Simon Swain
- Economic change and the transition to late antiquity / Richard Duncan-Jones
- A new Golden Age? The northern Praefectura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian / Emanuele Papi
- Transition and change in Diocletian's Egypt : province and empire in the late third century / Colin Adams
- Roman law AD 200-400 : from Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat? / Tony Honoré
- Roman citizenship and Roman law in the late empire / Peter Garnsey
- Emperors and armies, AD 235-395 / Michael Whitby
- Romanitas and the church of Rome / Mark Edwards
- Pagan and Christian monotheism in the age of Constantine / Mark Edwards
- The transofmration of imperial churchgoing in the fourth century / Neil McLynn
- Late antique art : the problem of the concept and the cumulative aesthetic / Jas Elsner
- Painted Hellenes : mummy portraits from late Roman Egypt / Susan Walker
- Poetry and literary culture in late antiquity / Alan Cameron
- Sophists and emperors : the case of Libanius / Simon Swain
- Philosophy as a profession in late antiquity / John Dillon