Approaching late antiquity the transformation from early to late empire edited by Simon Swain and Mark Edwards

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Q, Stacey

Contributor:

Swain, Simon

Edwards, Mark

Series:

Oxford scholarship online

Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Rome.

Social change.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome--Social conditions.

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

Rome--Politics and government--284-476.

Civilization.

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press 2006

Summary:

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 religion, Christian church, Greek and Latin literature, the army, the law, the provinces, settlement, and the economy. This book is an illustrated collection of fifteen essays on the later Roman world, and each study focuses on the two centuries from AD 200 to 400. The book challenges orthodoxies (for example, Honoré on law, Whitby on military life, Edwards on monotheism), gives coverage (Duncan-Jones on economy, Cameron on poetry, Elsner on art), and discusses the general issues and problems through major examples (McLynn on emperors in church, Papi on Italian towns, Adams on governing Egypt, Swain on Libanius, Garnsey on citizens, Dillon on philosophers, Walker on mummy portraits). The authors have set their contributions in the light of current approaches and bibliography, and the volume is a reference work in its own right

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9780191708978

0191708976

OCLC:

608626177

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