Title & Author:

Late antiquity : a guide to the postclassical world / G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, editors.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.

Description:

xiii, 780 pages : illustrations (some illustrations) ; 27 cm

Series:

Harvard University Press reference library

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Remaking the past / Averil Cameron -- Sacred landscapes / Béatrice Caseau -- Philosophical tradition and the self / Henry Chadwick -- Religious communities / Garth Fowden -- Barbarians and ethnicity / Patrick J. Geary -- War and violence / Brent D. Shaw -- Empire building / Christopher Kelly -- Christian triumph and controversy / Richard Lim -- Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- The good life / Henry Maguire -- Habitat / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Alphabetical guide.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In eleven in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory." "By extending the commonly accepted chronological and territorial boundaries of the period - to encompass Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic cultures, from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth - this guide makes new connections and permits revealing comparisons."--Jacket.

Resources:
Credo Reference
KSC: Connect to online version

ISBN:

0674511735 (alk. paper)
9780674511736 (alk. paper)
9781849722766
1849722765

Subject:

Classical dictionaries.
Greek World history
Roman World history
Antiquités gréco-romaines Dictionnaires anglais.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Civilization, Ancient Encyclopedias.
Empire byzantin Dictionnaires Jusqu'à 527.
Europe Dictionnaires 392-814.
Empire islamique Dictionnaires 661-750.
Rome Dictionnaires 284-476 (Bas-Empire)

Form/genre:

Classical dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Reference works
Textbooks (form)
Encyclopedias (form)
Ouvrages de référence.

Added entries:

Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
Brown, Peter, 1935-
Grabar, Oleg.
Brown, Peter Robert Lamont
Harvard University Press reference library.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 210466
Call No.: DE5 .L2 1999
Status: Available