Centers and Peripheries? Available to Purchase

I have an admission: when I first started attending the monthly seminar organized by Peter Brown through the Group for the Study of Late Antiquity at Princeton in the 1990s, I did not know who Ambrose of Milan was.¹ That confession is perhaps particularly embarrassing for someone who has just assumed the editorship of a journal dedicated to the study of Late Antiquity. Although it is not a terribly good excuse, I was at the time a first-year graduate student in the Department of Religion primarily interested in Jewish literature and culture in what we then blithely called the “Graeco-Roman world” and was more knowledgeable about the history of the Hasmonaean dynasty than about post-Constantinian Christianity. One of the most memorable seminars I attended in those years was given by Neil McLynn (then of Keio University, now of Corpus Christi College Oxford).² Among various topics related to the...