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LATE ANTIQUITY H UNIVERSITY Research Assistants Michael Gaddis Jennifer Hcvelone-Harper Megan Reid Kevin Uhalde LATE ANTIQUITY A GUIDE TO THE POSTCLASSICAL WORLD G. W. Bowersock Peter Brown Oleg Grabar Editors The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England • 1999 Copyright © 1999 by .he President and Fellows of Harvard College Ltbrary of Congress Cataloging-m-Publ,cation Data Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-6j4*5 i i -3-5 talk, paper) II. Brown, Peter Ruben Lamont. III. Grabar. Oleg. DF.5.L19 1999 938.003—dell 9915*)9 Contents Introduction Maps Remaking the Past • Averil Cameron Sacred Landscapes • Beatrice 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 Illustrations follow p. 157 Habitat • Yizhar Hirschfeld Alphabetical Guide Abbreviations Contributors Illustration Credits Index Color illustrations follow p. 171

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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 e
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