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A Companion to Late Antiquity
Philip Rousseau
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Description for A Companion to Late Antiquity
Paperback. Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers. This authoritative Companion captures the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Editor(s): Rousseau, Philip. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 734 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 234 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1096.
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
- Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
- Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era
- Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
- Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
- Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
734
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118255315
SKU
V9781118255315
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99-50
About Philip Rousseau
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the ... Read more
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