Late antiquity [electronic resource] : a guide to the postclassical world
2012
Book
Abstract: 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 comprehensive essays and in 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.
Main title:
Late antiquity [electronic resource] : a guide to the postclassical world / G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, editors.
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.)
Collation:
1 online resource (529 entries) : 1 image, digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xiii, 780 p. : ill. (some ill.)
Contents:
Remaking the Past / Averil Cameron -- Sacred Landscapes / BeĢatrice 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.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
0674511735 (alk paper)9781849722766 (online)
Dewey class:
938.003
LC class:
DE5
Language:
English
BRN:
502670
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