The Oxford Handbook of Late AntiquityScott Fitzgerald Johnson Oxford University Press, 11 de out. de 2012 - 1296 páginas The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself. |
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Problems and Approaches | |
The Balkans | |
Armenia | |
Economic Trajectories | |
Concerning Rural Matters | |
Marriage and Family | |
Poverty Charity and the Invention of the Hospital | |
Concepts of Citizenship | |
Justice and Equality | |
Roman Law and Legal Culture | |
Use and Reuse | |
Central Asia and the Silk Road | |
Syriac and the Syrians | |
Egypt | |
The Coptic Tradition | |
Arabia and Ethiopia | |
Latin Poetry | |
Greek Poetry | |
Historiography | |
Hellenism and Its Discontents | |
Speaking Thinking and Socializing | |
Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage | |
Physics and Metaphysics | |
Travel Cartography and Cosmology | |
Paganism and Christianization | |
Episcopal Leadership | |
The Case of Forgery | |
Sacred Space and Visual | |
Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer | |
The Church of the East in Late | |
Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion | |
Muḥammad and the Qurān | |
The Later Roman Empire | |
Late Antiquity in Byzantium | |
Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | |
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