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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

by Scott Johnson
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/11/2012

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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, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, 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 providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
ISBN:
9780195336931
9780195336931
Category:
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-11-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
1296
Dimensions (mm):
248x189x63mm
Weight:
2.26kg

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