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- Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World (Harvard Un...
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- 9780674511736
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- Late Antiquity : a Guide to the Postclassical World
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- Harvard University Press
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- Harvard University Press Référence Library
- Publication Year
- 1999
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 2in
- Item Width
- 8in
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The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with great reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. By extending the commonly accepted chronological and territorial boundaries of the period--to encompass Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic cultures, from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--this guide makes new connections and permits revealing comparisons. Consult the article on "Angels" and discover their meaning in Islamic as well as classical and Judeo-Christian traditions. Refer to "Children," "Concubinage," and "Divorce" for a fascinating interweaving of information on the family. Read the essay on "Barbarians and Ethnicity" and see how a topic as current as the construction of identity played out in earlier times, from the Greeks and Romans to the Turks, Huns, and Saxons. Turn to "Empire Building" to learn how the empire of Constantine was supported by architecture and ceremony. Or follow your own path through the broad range of entries on politics, manufacturing and commerce, the arts, philosophy, religion, geography, ethnicity, and domestic life. Each entry introduces readers to another facet of the postclassical world: historic figures and places, institutions, burial customs, food, money, public life, and amusements. A splendid selection of illustrations enhances the portrait. The intriguing era of late antiquity emerges completely and clearly, viewed in a new light, in a guide that will be relished by scholars and general readers alike.
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Harvard University Press
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0674511735
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9780674511736
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Publication Name
Late Antiquity : a Guide to the Postclassical World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Harvard University Press Référence Library
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
802 Pages
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Item Length
10.5in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
68.1 Oz
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4
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The specific objective of this volume, with its distinguished editorship, is to enable students of the Late Roman Empire and the centuries that followed to perceive the period from c.250 AD to c.800 AD as a particular period in its own right, with characteristics, derived from the Roman and Sassanid Empires, that are peculiar to this period'e¦A blockbuster such as this may appear daunting to the student but if it finds its way to some library shelves, even in a few schools, it is likely to be not so much a guide as a support, stimulus and challenge to the already-guided., The specific objective of this volume, with its distinguished editorship, is to enable students of the Late Roman Empire and the centuries that followed to perceive the period from c.250 AD to c.800 AD as a particular period in its own right, with characteristics, derived from the Roman and Sassanid Empires, that are peculiar to this period...A blockbuster such as this may appear daunting to the student but if it finds its way to some library shelves, even in a few schools, it is likely to be not so much a guide as a support, stimulus and challenge to the already-guided., This era is analyzed and illustrated with encyclopedic thoroughness and precision in Late Antiquity...The metaphysical tension and clash of cultures of Late Antiquity reminds one of our own; Late Antiquity is, unintentionally, a mirror of the 21st century. Edited by distinguished scholars G. W. Bowersock, Oleg Grabar and Peter Brown, this volume heralds a new discipline and extends a welcome to non-scholars as well., [A] vade mecum for anybody drawn to what we used to call the Dark Ages, that swirling, little-understood period form the 3rd to the 8th centuries., Reading Late Antiquity one has a sense of the tearing down of barriers which have divided what should be a seamless web of the past. History does not in reality confine itself to neatly separate areas and departments--Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic, Germanic--in the way that universities do... Late Antiquity keeps to a very high standard of scholarship and it will please a wide range of serious readers., The authors provide an integrated view of the world during this period instead of looking at historical happenings in an isolated context...The themes are broad and expand the reader's perspective. Topics include habitat, war, religious communities, "the good life," and more., A proper educational guide cannot tell us what we need to know, but it can provide a map and a direction by which we may progress. Late Antiquity is, in this respect, the epitome of educational guides for the earnest student of history...Brown, Bowersock, and Grabar have all contributed seminal works in the figures and institutions that shaped and informed this vibrant, and previously obscured, time. To their credit, they have done for late antiquity what Niels Bohr did for the quantum electron: they discovered, or, more accurately, uncovered it. Late Antiquity is half encyclopedia, half textbook, and a whole world of scholarship. With 11 thematic essays and over 500 encyclopedic entries, Late Antiquity contains a starting point for the student and a crucial resource for the scholar., The editors of this handsome and inviting volume have each helped kindle the recent explosion in postclassical studies with important contributions on the creeds and cultures of the first millennium CE. Late Antiquity offers casual browsers and learned specialists alike a unique introduction to the summation of current scholarship on the period that has for too long been held as 'the unraveling of a once glorious...civilization' or 'a violent and hurried prelude to better things'...Highly recommended., This era is analyzed and illustrated with encyclopedic thoroughness and precision in Late Antiquity ...The metaphysical tension and clash of cultures of Late Antiquity reminds one of our own; Late Antiquity is, unintentionally, a mirror of the 21st century. Edited by distinguished scholars G. W. Bowersock, Oleg Grabar and Peter Brown, this volume heralds a new discipline and extends a welcome to non-scholars as well., Covers the interlocked worlds of Rome, Byzantium, the Persian Empire, and the newly emerging culture and kingdoms connected to the rise of Islam . . . The essays touch not only on big ideas and big movements but also on what the many discrete researches, ranging from literary criticism to anthropology, tell us., The result of the editors' decision to provide not an encyclopedia but a 'guide' is a brilliant success...The 11 brilliant and provocative essays which constitute the first section of the book discuss with fresh insight and in depth the ways in which the people of these turbulent centuries appropriated and manipulated the past; how the philosophers wrestled with the concept of 'the self,' one for which the Latin and Greek languages had no word; the life of religious (mainly Christian) communities; the formation of the concept of nationality among the new peoples settling in what had been the Roman empire of the West; the nature and dynamics of war in the period; empire building (especially the eastern Roman empire founded by Constantine in 323 A.D.); Christian triumph and controversy; Islam; and finally The Good Life, a survey of domestic property drawing on new archaeological material...The rest of the book, over 400 of its 780 pages, offers more than 500 articles in encyclopedic form, covering a wealth of topics not treated, or not treated in detail, in the essays...These entries are endlessly fascinating., Reading Late Antiquity one has a sense of the tearing down of barriers which have divided what should be a seamless web of the past. History does not in reality confine itself to neatly separate areas and departments--Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic, Germanic--in the way that universities do...Late Antiquity keeps to a very high standard of scholarship and it will please a wide range of serious readers., To fathom the cross-currents and undertows of the "post-classical" world while throwing out lifelines to the novice is no mean task, and the three editors have risen to this challenge with flair and discrimination...Cross-cutting between the public domain and private lives and drawing on such sources as Egyptian papyri and archaeology, the essays present varieties of experience in a three-dimensional way and make substantive contributions to scholarly debate., When Arnaldo Momigliano was at the University of Chicago he use to argue that we should teach not 'church history' but just 'history.' This is the implicit view of most of the contributors to this large, well-illustrated volume. The editors urge readers to use this impressive guide 'with enterprise and patience,' especially by choosing the right terms to look up. Eleven well-constructed essays on major themes in the modern study of late antiquity precede the book's brief, solid and up-to-date encyclopedia-style articles...Their book will be of great interest to everyone concerned with the origins of modern religion, politics and culture., This is a richly informative volume on the history and culture of the postclassical period from about 250 to 800 CE...[this] book is a pleasure for the serious scholar and browser alike., Some books are like the Grand Bazaar: a maze of twisting byways where every corner promises surprise. Late Antiquity is such a book. Modestly calling itself a guide, this sumptuous volume shows the way not only to exotic and often vanished locales, but also to the emperors and caliphs, kingdoms and dynasties, ascetics and voluptuaries, and even the ordinary citizens of that complex and tortuous half-millennium (from 250 to 800 A.D.) in which our own spiritual and intellectual world first took recognizable shape. More than 200 experts have contributed, but the guide displays none of the numbing sameness that so often discourages the reader of scholarly monographs. Alongside succinct articles on Augustine or on ships (with a fine line-drawing of a Byzantine double-oared vessel) or on Jerusalem, there are treatments of bed-chambers, camels, prayer and even pornography, among other topics., The editors of this work have accomplished a worthy goal in broadening our understanding of a significant period of history...Making extensive use of new archaeological discoveries, this work challenges old assumptions and should help renew interest in this era.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
1999
Topic
Ancient / General, Référence, World
Lccn
99-025639
Dewey Decimal
938/.003
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History
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