Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Hardcover. About near fine(-) in near fine(-) to very good(+) lightly edge-worn jacket now hosued in archival mylar. Light scholalry pencil marginalia (mostly lines) to first few pages. in fine dust-jacket. Large quarto color illus jacket (black spine); xiii, 780 pages: illustrations (some illustrations); 27 cm. Bibliographical references and index. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. "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. 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. Classical dictionaries. Greek World -- history Roman World -- history Antiquités gréco-romaines -- Dictionnaires anglais. General world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general. Classical dictionaries. Cultuurgeschiedenis. Sociale geschiedenis. Civilization, Ancient -- Encyclopedias. Classical dictionaries. Classical dictionaries. (v) Dictionaries. Reference works. Textbooks (form) Encyclopedias (form) Reference works. Empire byzantin -- Dictionnaires -- Jusqu'à 527. Europe -- Dictionnaires -- 392-814. Empire islamique -- Dictionnaires -- 661-750. Rome -- Dictionnaires -- 284-476 (Bas-Empire.