The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila

Text Figures page xi
List of Maps xii
Contributors xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Chronology xvii
List of Abbreviations xix
Part I: The Roman Empire
1. Reversals of Fortune: An Overview of the Age of Attila / MICHAEL MAAS 3
2. Government and Mechanisms of Control, East and West / GEOFFREY GREATREX 26
3. Urban and Rural Economies in the Age of Attila / PETER SARRIS 44
4. Mediterranean Cities in the Fifth Century: Elites, Christianizing, and the Barbarian Influx / KENNETH G. HOLUM 61
5. Big Cities and the Dynamics of the Mediterranean during the Fifth Century / RAYMOND VAN DAM 80
6. Dynasty and Aristocracy in the Fifth Century / BRIAN CROKE 98
7. Military Developments in the Fifth Century / HUGH ELTON 125
8. Law and Legal Culture in the Age of Attila / CAROLINE HUMFRESS 140
9. Romanness in the Age of Attila / JONATHAN P. CONANT 156
Part II: Attila and the World around Rome
10. The Steppe World and the Rise of the Huns / ÉTIENNE DE LA VAISSIÈRE 175
11. Neither Conquest Nor Settlement: Attila’s Empire and Its Impact / CHRISTOPHER KELLY 193
12. The Huns and Barbarian Europe / PETER J. HEATHER 209
13. Captivity among the Barbarians and Its Impact on the Fate of the Roman Empire / NOEL LENSKI 230
14. Migrations, Ethnic Groups, and State Building / WALTER POHL 247
15. Kingdoms of North Africa / ANDY MERRILLS 264
16. The Reinvention of Iran: The Sasanian Empire and the Huns / RICHARD PAYNE 282
Part III: Religious and Cultural Transformation
17. Ascetics and Monastics in the Early Fifth Century / SUSANNA ELM 303
18. Religious Doctrine and Ecclesiastical Change in the Time of Leo the Great / SUSAN WESSEL 327
19. Christian Sermons against Pagans: The Evidence from Augustine’s \"Sermons\" on the New Year and on the Sack of Rome in 410 / MICHELE RENEE SALZMAN 344
20. Mediterranean Jews in a Christianizing Empire / JOSEPH E. SANZO AND RA\'ANAN BOUSTAN 358
21. Ordering Intellectual Life / EDWARD WATTS 376
22. Real and Imagined Geography / SCOTT F. JOHNSON 394
23. Selected Ancient Sources / MAYA MASKARINEC 414
Bibliography 425
Index 469