P. Rousseau (dir.), A Companion to Late Antiquity

Philip Rousseau (dir.), A Companion to Late Antiquity, Wiley-Blackwell, coll. "Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World", 2009. 736 pages.
ISBN: 9781405119801 £95.00 / €118.80

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The essays collected in this authoritative Companion capture the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.

For the last generation, late antiquity - the time between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean - has come to be regarded as one of the most dynamic periods of ancient history. Once seen as a time of decline and fall, late antiquity is now viewed as an era of powerful transformation, in which the peoples and institutions that profoundly influenced the modern world took shape.

In providing a useful overview of current scholarship on late antiquity, the essays emphasize the central importance of religion in this period. Theology and belief are situated in historical context as the book highlights the interconnectedness of religious life with economic, social, and political realms.

Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hagg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).

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Table des matières:

List of Figures.
List of Maps.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface and Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Approaching Late Antiquity (Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University).
Part I: The View from the Future.
2. The Byzantine Late Antiquity (Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University).
3. Late Antiquity in the Medieval West (Conrad Leyser, University of Oxford).
4. Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity (Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia).
5. Narrating Decline and Fall (Clifford Ando, University of Chicago).
6. Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes (Stefan Rebenich, Universität Bern).
Part II: Land and People.
7. The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives (Mark Humphries, Swansea University).
8. Mobility and the Traces of Empire: Blake Leyerle (University of Notre Dame).
9. Information and Political Power (Claire Sotinel, Université Paris XII Val de Marne).
10. Mediterranean Cities (S.T. Loseby, University of Sheffield).
11. The Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation (Olof Brandt, Istituto Pontificio di Archeologia Cristiana).
12. Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity (Dennis E. Trout, University of Missouri-Columbia).
13. Gender and the Fall of Rome (Kate Cooper, University of Manchester).
14. Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West (Judith Evans-Grubbs, Washington University in St. Louis).
15. The Church, the Living, and the Dead (Éric Rebillard, Cornell University).
Part III: Image and Word.
16. The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority (Raffaella Cribiore, New York University).
17. Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity (Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University).
18. Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries (Karla Pollmann, University of St. Andrews).
19. Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores (Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Texas at Austin).
20. Verbal and Visual Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power (James A. Francis, University of Kentucky).
21: Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art (Felicity Harley, University of Melbourne).
22. The Discourse of Later Latin (Philip Burton, University of Birmingham).
23. Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt (Malcolm Choat, Macquarie University).
24. Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time (David Woods, University College Cork).
Part IV: Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond.
25. Law in Practice (Caroline Humfress, Birkbeck, University of London).
26. The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now (Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University).
27. Beyond the Northern Frontiers (Guy Halsall, University of York).
28. From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West (John Vanderspoel, University of Calgary).
29. Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Confrontation and Coexistence (Jan Willem Drijvers, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).
30. Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West (Christine Shepardsonm, University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
31. Syria and the Arabs (David Cook, Rice University).
32. The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610–c. AD 750) (Andrew Marsham, University of Edinburgh).
Part V: The Sacred.
33. Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life (Richard Lim, Smith College).
34. The Political Church: Religion and the State (Michael Gaddis, Syracuse University).
35. The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality (Rita Lizzi Testa, Università degli Studi di Perugia).
36. The Conduct of Theology and the “Fathers” of the Church (Thomas Graumann, University of Cambridge).
37. Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish–Christian Relations (Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College).
38. Pagans in a Christian Empire (Neil McLynn, University of Oxford).
39. “Not of This World”: The Invention of Monasticism (Daniel F. Caner, University of Connecticut).
Bibliography.
Index.