Late Antiquity

A Guide to the Postclassical World

Edited by G. W. Bowersock

Edited by Peter Brown

Edited by Oleg Grabar

  • Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

Introduction

Remaking the Past
Averil Cameron

Sacralization and Desacralization
Béatrice Caseau

Philosophical Tradition and the Self
Henry Chadwick

Religious Communities
Garth Fowden

Barbarians and Ethnicity
Patrick J. Geary

War and Violence
Brent D. Shaw

Empire Building
Christopher Kelly

Christian Triumph and Controversy
Richard Lim

Islam
Hugh Kennedy

The Good Life
Henry Maguire

Habitat
Yizhar Hirschfeld

Alphabetical Guide

Abbreviations

Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index

  • Cover: Late Antiquity

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.