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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: On the Uniqueness of Late Antiquity
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Contributors
Maps
Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity
Part I. Geographies and Peoples
1. The Western Kingdoms
2. Barbarians: Problems and Approaches
3. The Balkans
4. Armenia
5. Central Asia and the Silk Road
6. Syriac and the “Syrians”
7. Egypt
8. The Coptic Tradition
9. Arabia and Ethiopia
Part II. Literary and Philosophical Cultures
10. Latin Poetry
11. Greek Poetry
12. Historiography
13. Hellenism and Its Discontents
14. Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing
15. Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage
16. Physics and Metaphysics
17. Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology
Part III. Law, State, and Social Structures
18. Economic Trajectories
19. Concerning Rural Matters
20. Marriage and Family
21. Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital
22. Concepts of Citizenship
23. Justice and Equality
24. Roman Law and Legal Culture
25. Communication in Late Antiquity: Use and Reuse
Part IV. Religions and Religious Identity
26. Paganism and Christianization
27. Episcopal Leadership
28. Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery
29. Sacred Space and Visual Art
30. Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer
31. From Nisibis to Xi’an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia
32. Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion
33. Muhammad and the Qur’ān
Part V. Late Antiquity in Perspective
34. Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World
35. Late Antiquity in Byzantium
36. Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Index
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