Interpreting Late Antiquity

Essays on the Postclassical World

Edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar

    Introduction

    Maps

    Remaking the Past, by Averil Cameron

    Sacred Landscapes, by Béatrice Caseau

    Philosophical Tradition and the Self, by Henry Chadwick

    Varieties of Religious Community, by Garth Fowden

    Barbarians and Ethnicity, by Patrick J. Geary

    War and Violence, by Brent D. Shaw

    Empire Building, by Christopher Kelly

    Christian Triumph and Controversy, by Richard Lim

    Islam, by Hugh Kennedy

    The Good Life, by Henry Maguire

    Habitat, by Yizhar Hirschfeld

    Abbreviations

    Contributors

    Index

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G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University. Among his publications is The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 A.D.

Oleg Grabar is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.