A Companion to Late Antiquity

Rousseau, Philip (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

1. Auflage Januar 2009
736 Seiten, Hardcover
Lehrbuch

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1980-1

John Wiley & Sons

Kurzbeschreibung

Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die Spätantikeforschung und beleuchtet insbesondere die Rolle der Religion für das ökonomische, gesellschaftliche und politische Leben. Sein Fazit: Die enormen Veränderungen dieser Zeit sind von grundlegender Bedeutung für die Welt von heute.

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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.

* Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean

* Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era

* Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world

* Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life

List of Figures.
List of Maps.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface and Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
Part I: The View from the Future.
Part II: Land and People.
Part III: Image and Word.
Part IV: Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond.
Part V: The Sacred.
Bibliography.
Index.

"It is not a work of reference in the traditional sense: Rousseau compares it to a journey in the company of enthusiastic experts guiding the reader through their favourite areas. By including many younger contributors, and others in mid-career, enthusiasm, and a sense of the excitement of the (as yet) unexplored, are guaranteed...the Companion maintains a generally high level of expertise and informed analysis throughout: the contributors have been well chosen. Production and editing are excellent, and there is an intelligently constructed index...researchers and specialists cannot afford to neglect this richly rewarding book." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, February, 2010)

"This is a feast of a volume, but it 'consolidates n academic field in its own right' (p. 12) rather than opening new horizons. That was Peter Brown's achievement." (Journal of Ecclesiastical History, April 2010)

"This companion digests the latest research, and is a worthwhile addition to any reference library."(CHOICE, 2009)

"Academics and researchers in any of the fields it covers will find this a valuable vade mecum to scholarly debate in both their own and peripheral subjects; undergraduates may use it selectively to enrich or clarify particular areas of study." (Reference Reviews, January 2010)

Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hägg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).

P. Rousseau, Catholic University of America