The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST probably, though not certainly, Justinianic, shows what we would naturally have expected – a mixture of ...

6 LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE The title of this chapter in the original edition of this book was ‘Culture and mentalit ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE superstition and irrationality. However, after the appearance of Peter Brown’s World of La ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY importance of archaeological evidence for any study of late antiquity, but we can also ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE Alexandrian teacher Hypatia had been killed in Christian–pagan conflicts ear- lier in the ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY in need of a brief tutorial in Roman history, and again a generation or so later, when ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE northern Syria, chose to emphasize their religious upbringing and monastic connections, bu ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY accession of Justin II in 565 (Chapter 5); it seems that Virgil went on being taught i ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE profound.^30 Many elements of the Platonic philosophical tradition had been absorbed into ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY the god on behalf of the invalid. For at that time the city still enjoyed the use of t ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE A changing world If anything, the literary culture of late antiquity was even more class-b ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY which constituted a particularly fl ourishing genre among educated Christians in the e ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE on the visual and the oral.^46 The increase in attention to Christian religious images in ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY became a serious option even for the rich. Jerome’s successful efforts to pro- mote an ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE Christianity made little difference to the morals of that court at least, except perhaps w ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY to the local church, and these themselves could be on a lavish scale. Perhaps more imp ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE Ephesus and Chalcedon (Chapters 1 and 3), though attention to Mary had been building up si ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY some women may have gained more status than they had had before. At least we can say t ...

LATE ANTIQUE CULTURE AND PRIVATE LIFE barian settlement and the subsequent development of barbarian kingdoms also disturbed exis ...

7 URBAN CHANGE AND THE LATE ANTIQUE COUNTRYSIDE An enormous amount has been written in recent years about towns in late an- tiqu ...