Preface : On the uniqueness of late antiquity / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Introduction : Late antique conceptions of late antiquity / Hervé Inglebert Part I. Geographies and peoples. The western kingdoms / Michael Kulikowski Barbarians : problems and approaches / Michael Maas The Balkans / Craig H. Caldwell III Armenia / Tim Greenwood Central Asia and the silk road / Étienne de la Vaissière Syriac and the "Syrians" / Philip Wood Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou The Coptic tradition / Anne Boud'hors Arabia and Ethiopia / Christian Julien Robin Part II. Literary and philosophical cultures. Latin poetry / Scott McGill Greek poetry / Gianfranco Agosti Historiography / Brian Croke Hellenism and its discontents / Aaron P. Johnson Education : speaking, thinking, and socializing / Edward Watts Monasticism and the philosophical heritage / Samuel Rubenson Physics and metaphysics / Gregory Smith Travel, cartography, and cosmology / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Part III. Law, state, and social structures.
Economic trajectories / Jairus Banaji
Concerning rural matters / Cam Grey
Marriage and family / Kyle Harper
Poverty, charity, and the invention of the hospital / Peregrine Horden
Concepts of citizenship / Ralph Mathisen
Justice and equality / Kevin Uhalde
Roman law and legal culture / Jill Harries
Communication in late antiquity : use and reuse / Andrew Gillett
Part IV. Religons and religious identity.
Paganism and Christianization / Jaclyn Maxwell
Episcopal leadership / David M. Gwynn
Theological argumentation : the case of forgery / Susan Wessel
Sacred space and visual art / Ann Marie Yasin
Object relations : theorizing the late antique viewer / Glenn Peers
From Nisibis to Xi'an : the church of the East in late antique Eurasia / Joel Walker
Early Islam as a late antique religion / Robert Hoyland
Muhammad and the Qur'ān / Stephen J. Shoemaker
Part V. Late antiquity in perspective.
Comparative state formation : the later Roman Empire in the wider world / John Haldon
Late antiquity in Byzantium / Petre Guran
Late antiquity and the Italian Renaissance / Christopher S. Celenza.
