Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity
Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity
Editor/Author
Boin, Douglas
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
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$104.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$156.00
ISBN: 978-1-11-907700-8
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count:
43
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as it was lived in the spaces around and between two of the most memorable and towering figures of the time -- Constantine and Muhammad.
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Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Boxed Texts
- Preface: The Magic of History
- Acknowledgments
- Annotated List of Abbreviations and a Note on Citations from Secondary Literature
- Timeline
- Map: The Late Antique World At‐A‐Glance
- Part I: The “Vanishing” of Rome
- 1 Who and What Is Late Antiquity?
- 1.1 An Overview of the Book
- 1.2 Three Lives and the “Fall of Rome”
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 2 When Does Late Antiquity Begin? When Does it End?
- 2.1 The Third through Fifth Centuries CE: A Narrated Timeline
- 2.2 A Warning about Periodization
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 3 How Do We Do Late Antique History?
- 3.1 Evaluating Sources, Asking Questions
- 3.2 The Past in the Past
- 3.3 Acquiring Cultural Competence: The Study of Religion in History
- 3.4 Linking, not Disconnecting, Different Periods of Early Christianity
- 3.5 Pre‐Modern vs. Early Modern History: A Note on Sources
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- Part II: Late Antiquity Appears
- 4 Power
- 4.1 Third‐Century Politics
- 4.2 Mithras and a Roman Fascination with the Mysteries of Persia
- 4.3 The Material Culture of Sasanian Persia
- 4.4 Rome and Sasanian Persia in Conflict
- 4.5 The Roman World of the Third Century CE
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 5 Worship
- 5.1 The Civic Sacrifice Policy of 250 CE
- 5.2 How Did Romans Worship Their Gods? Text and Material Culture, c. Third Century CE
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 6 Social Change
- 6.1 Rome's Laws Against Christians
- 6.2 The End of the Third Century and the Rise of the Rule of Four
- 6.3 A View from Thessaloniki, Roman Greece, Late Third Century CE
- 6.4 Diocletian's Edict against Followers of Mani, 296 CE or 302 CE
- 6.5 The Rise of Christianity: Assumptions and Starting Points
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 7 Law and Politics
- 7.1 Roman Law: History From the Ground‐Up, Top‐Down, and Sideways
- 7.2 The “Edict of Milan,” 313 CE
- 7.3 Individual Laws and the Collection of Legal Texts
- 7.4 Law and Politics in the Fourth Century CE
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 8 Urban Life
- 8.1 Daily Life in the Fourth Century CE and Beyond: Starting Points and Assumptions
- 8.2 The Archaeology of Rome
- 8.3 The Archaeology of Constantinople
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 9 Community
- 9.1 Mystery Cults
- 9.2 Christian Communities and Christian Law
- 9.3 The Jewish Community: Shared Values and Social Diversity
- 9.4 The Communities of Roman Egypt, Fourth–Fifth Centuries CE
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 10 Economy
- 10.1 Egypt beyond Its Borders
- 10.2 The Arena and Racing Culture
- 10.3 Economic Realities, Third–Sixth Centuries CE
- 10.4 The Crypta Balbi Excavations, Rome: The Story of a Social Safety Net, Third Century–Sixth Century CE
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 11 The Household and Family
- 11.1 Home as a Place
- 11.2 House‐Churches in the Long History of Christianity
- 11.3 Family and Household Relations, c.405–551 CE
- 11.4 Slaves and Slavery
- 11.5 Households and the Emergence of the Papacy in Rome
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 12 Ideas and Literary Culture
- 12.1 The “One” and the Many: Philosophical and Anthropological Perspectives
- 12.2 Literature and Ideas after the “Vanishing” of Rome
- 12.3 The Literary Culture of Justinian's Roman Empire
- 12.4 Literature as a Source for the Study of Medicine and Disease
- 12.5 The Rise of a Book Culture
- 12.6 Latin Poetry and Christian Communities in Rome, c.366–600 CE
- 12.7 Looking Ahead: “People of the Book”
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- Part III: The Illusion of Mediterranean History
- 13 Geography and Society
- 13.1 Seeing the Sixth Century Through the Eyes of an Emperor and a Traveler
- 13.2 Cosmas’ Christian World
- 13.3 Beyond Rome's Christian Empire in the Sixth Century CE
- 13.4 Sixth‐ and Seventh‐Century South Asia
- 13.5 Sixth‐ and Seventh‐Century China and Central Asia
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- 14 A Choice of Directions
- 14.1 Jerusalem in the Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries CE
- 14.2 The Social World of the Arabian Peninsula in the Sixth Century CE
- 14.3 The Believers Movement
- Summary
- Study Questions
- Suggested Readings
- Glossary
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