The fifth century : age of transformation : proceedings of the 12th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference / edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and Noel Lenski ; with assistance from Kevin Feeney and Sean Northrup.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Drijvers, Jan Willem, editor.

Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 1965- editor.

Conference Name:

Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference (12th : 2017 : Yale University)

Series:

Munera ; 1724-3874 46.

Munera, 1724-3874 ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Congresses.

Rome.

Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries--Congresses.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bari : Edipuglia, 2019.

Summary:

"The fifth century CE represents a turning point in ancient history. Before 400 the Roman Empire stood largely intact and coherent, a massive and powerful testament to traditions of state power stretching back for the previous 600 years. By 500 the empire had fragmented as state power retreated rapidly and the political and social forces that would usher in the Middle Ages be-came cemented into place. This volume explores this crucial period in the six broad areas of natural science, archaeology and material culture, barbarian and Roman relations, law and power, religious authority, and literary constructions. Assembling the papers of the twelfth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on this pivotal century in all of its ramifications."-- Punlisher's website.

Contents:

The Climate of the Fifth Century / Kyle Harper

Climate Change and Agrarian Change between the Fourth and Sixth Centuries: Questions of Scale, Coincidence, and Causality / Cam Grey

A Spanish Bonanza? A Reexamination of Roman Gold Mining Technology / Dominic Solly

Blind Dating: Towards a Chronology of Fifth-Century Material Culture in Augusta Raurica / Anna Flückiger

The Vandals and the End of Elite North African Ceramics: Relief Decoration on African Red Slip Ware / John Hermann and Annewies van den Hoek

Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi (San Gimignano, Siena): A Roman Villa in Central Italy during Late Antiquity / Marco Cavalieri, Gloriana Pace, Sara Lenzi

Defining Limits in Times of Shifting Borders: Jewish Life in Fifth-Century Palestine / Zeev Weiss

The Little Island That Could: Cyprus in the Fifth Century / Young Richard Kim

The End of the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century CE: Barbarian Auxiliaries, Independent Military Contractors, and Civil Wars / Ralph W. Mathisen

A New Name for a New State: The Construction of the Burgundian Regio / Merle Eisenberg

"Barbarians" Transformed: The Construction of Identity in the Epistles of Sidonius Apollinaris / Veronika Egetenmeyr

The Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor: Imperial Interregna in the Fifth Century / Kevin Feeney

Leo II, Zeno and the Transfer of Roman Imperial Rule from a Son to his Father in 474 CE / Meaghan McEvoy

Active Rulership Unrealized: Claudian's Panegyric on Honorius / Felix K. Maier

Administrative Transitions in Gaul during the Second Half of the Fifth Century. The Example of the Visigothic Kingdom through the Breviary of Alaric / Marie Roux

Shifting Sacrifices? Fifth-Century Developments in Ritual Life / Maijastina Kahlos

The Fifth-Century Transformation of Apologetics in Cyril and Theodoret / Aaron P. Johnson

Ordinary Christians and the Fifth-Century Reform of the Church in Gaul / A. E. Tiggy McLaughlin

Pope Gelasius's Theory of Law and its Implementation at the End of the Fifth Century / Bronwen Neil

Hypatia in the Letter Collection of Synesius / Edward Watts

From Persecutor to Arbitrator of Orthodoxy: The Changing Face of Sextus Petronius Probus between the Fourth and the Fifth Century / Hajnalka Tamas

Commemorating Defeat: Cultural Memory and the Vandal Sack of Rome in 455 / Jason Moralee.

Notes:

"This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Twelfth Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference held at Yale University from 23 to 26 March 2017...."--Introduction, page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788872288863

887228886X

OCLC:

1107595435