What factors already present in the society of the High Roman
Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity?
What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers
to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of
cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religion,
Christian church, Greek and Latin literature, the army, the law,
the provinces, settlement, and the economy. Approaching Late
Antiquity is an illustrated collection of fifteen original essays
on the later Roman world written by a galaxy of internationally
known scholars. Each study focuses on the two centuries from AD 200
to 400; but subjects are taken according to their own organic
development, and authors range later or earlier as they need. The
result is a thoroughly readable account of the key themes and
topics. The book challenges orthodoxies (for example, Honore on
law, Whitby on military life, Edwards on monotheism), gives
comprehensive coverage (Duncan-Jones on economy, Cameron on poetry,
Elsner on art), and discusses the general issues and problems
through major examples (McLynn on emperors in church, Papi on
Italian towns, Adams on governing Egypt, Swain on Libanius, Garnsey
on citizens, Dillon on philosophers, Walker on mummy portraits).
The authors have set their contributions in the light of current
approaches and bibliography, and the volume will be a useful
reference work in its own right.
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