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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, Royal Holloway ; 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, Royal Holloway ; 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.
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, Royal Holloway ; 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, Royal Holloway ; 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.