The Oxford handbook of late antiquity

Acknowledgments 
 List of Contributors 
 List of Illustrations 
 Preface 
 Scott F. Johnson, Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks 
 Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity 
 Herve Inglebert, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Defense (Paris X) 
 Part I. Geographies and Peoples 
 1. The Western Kingdoms 
 Michael Kulikowski, Pennsylvania State University 
 2. Barbarians: Problems and Approaches 
 Michael Maas, Rice University 
 3. The Balkans 
 Craig H. Caldwell III, University of Georgia 
 4. Armenia 
 Tim Greenwood, St Andrews University 
 5. Central Asia and the Silk Road 
 Etienne de la Vaissiere, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 
 6. Syriac and the "Syrians" 
 Philip Wood, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University 
 7. Egypt 
 Arietta Papaconstantinou, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 
 8. The Coptic Tradition 
 Anne Boud'hors, Centre national de la scientifique (CNRS) 
 9. Ethiopia and Arabia 
 Christian Julien Robin, College de France 
 Part II. Literary and Philosophical Cultures 
 10. Latin Poetry 
 Scott McGill, Rice University 
 11. Greek Poetry 
 Gianfranco Agosti, Universita degli Studi di Udine 
 12. Historiography 
 Brian Croke, Macquarie University and University of Sydney 
 13. Hellenism and its Discontents 
 Aaron Johnson, Lee University 
 14. Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing 
 Edward Watts, Indiana University 
 15. Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage 
 Samuel Rubenson, Lunds Universitet 
 16. Physics and Metaphysics 
 Gregory Smith, Central Michigan University 
 17. Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology 
 Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks 
 III. Law, State, and Social Structures 
 18. Economic Trajectories 
 Jairus Banaji, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) 
 19. Agriculture and Other "Rural Matters" 
 Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania 
 20. Marriage and Family 
 Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma 
 21. Health, Disease, and Hospitals: The Case of the "Sacred House" 
 Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London 
 22. Concepts of Citizenship 
 Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
 23. Justice and Equality 
 Kevin Uhalde, Ohio University 
 24. Roman Law and Legal Culture 
 Jill Harries, St Andrews University 
 25. Communication: Use and Reuse 
 Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University 
 Part IV. Religions and Religious Identity 
 26. Paganism and Christianization 
 Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio University 
 27. Episcopal Leadership 
 David M. Gwynn, Royal Holloway, University of London 
 28. Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery 
 Susan Wessel, Catholic University of America 
 29. Sacred Space and Visual Art 
 Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California 
 30. Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer 
 Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin 
 31. From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East across Sasanian Persia 
 Joel Walker, University of Washington 
 32. Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion 
 Robert Hoyland, Oriental Institute, Oxford University 
 33. Muhammad and the Qur'an 
 Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon 
 Part V. Late Antiquity in Perspective 
 34. Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World 
 John Haldon, Princeton University 
 35. Late Antiquity in Byzantium 
 Petre Guran, Institute of South East European Studies, Bucharest 
 36. Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance 
 Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University