The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity - Brossura

Johnson, Scott

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ISBN 10: 019027753X ISBN 13: 9780190277536

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2015

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, Ireland, and Scandinavia in the West. Furthemore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while also providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.

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Recensione:

The professional historian will use this book as a handy source of reference. The general reader will enjoy it as providing a fascinating account of a period of history which is not well known. (Rupert Jackson, Classics For All)

L'autore:

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 019027753X
• ISBN 13: 9780190277536
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1296