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Late antiquity : a guide to the postclassical world
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Late antiquity : a guide to the postclassical world

Author: G W Bowersock; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Series: Harvard University Press reference library.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In eleven in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia 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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Classical dictionaries
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Late antiquity.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607449506
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: G W Bowersock; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar
ISBN: 0674511735 9780674511736
OCLC Number: 41076344
Description: xiii, 780 p. : ill. (some ill.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: Remaking the past / Averil Cameron --
Sacred landscapes / 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.
Series Title: Harvard University Press reference library.
Responsibility: G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, editors.

Abstract:

"In eleven in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia 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."--Jacket.

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