... significant metamorphoses and endured substantial destruction due to various earthquakes that struck the island during Late Antiquity. In the Byzantine period, post-villa complexes remained central in the management of rural areas, but within a different socioeconomic context. Furthermore, with the advent...

...Samuel Cohen This introduction frames a collection of four papers, originally presented at the 13th Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference, that examine late antique episcopal responses to disaster, typically military defeats caused by the barbarians. To contextualize what follows...

... Manichaeism Late Antiquity Buddhism Zoroaster early Christianity transmission global There have been numerous attempts by scholars (and others) to identify trajectories of transmission for religious and philosophical ideas across Eurasia in antiquity and to trace lines of contact between...

... trading posts; understanding their ancient roots helps us to better understand major regional events of the early sixth century, and even to contextualize modern practices of Yemeni Jews. 5 Late Antiquity Himyar synagogue epigraphy If one were simply to survey the known attestations...

...Matthew J. Chalmers This article treats the intersection of a “peripheral people”—specifically Samaritan Israelites—with scholarly narratives of disaster concerning Late Antiquity. A disaster is not so much a one-off event as an ongoing series of collective experiences, patterned and repatterned...

...Stanisław Adamiak © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 church history Late Antiquity history of clergy minor clerical orders 1. Gelasius I, letter 14 ( Epistulae Romanorum pontificum , ed. A. Thiel, Braunsberg 1868, 287–510; cf. Presbyters in the Late...

...David J. DeVore Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History , a seminal late-antique historical narrative, features three periodizations of the church’s past. First, a soteriological periodization divides God’s relationship with humanity at Christ’s Incarnation, an event that Eusebius marks in Book 1...

... and encouragement at various stages of the conceptualization and drafting of this paper. Syriac Christians Sasanian Empire Late Antiquity Violence Persecution Jews Frontiers The history of ancient Christianity is often framed as a progression from imperial victims to imperial power, ascending from...

...Jared Secord; Jessica Wright In this article, the authors propose that late antique medicine is a rich and versatile subject to teach in undergraduate courses, despite a seeming lack of sources and teaching resources. Following an introduction, authors Crislip, Langford, Llewellyn Ihssen, and Marx...

...) the timeframe within which they completed all this work. catacombs early Christianity socio-economic history Late Antiquity Judaism identity formation burial practices The catacombs of Rome are perhaps the single most remarkable ancient funerary monument to survive in the vast necropoleis...

.... By developing an understanding of its hermeneutical function for the rabbis, this article helps to elucidate the value of suffering for rabbinic literature as a subset of late antique religious discourse. Given this broader definition of theodicy, as well as the possibility of anti-theodicy as a potential...

...Blossom Stefaniw The 20 th century saw intense change in theories of knowledge. How can we integrate such developments with our approach to knowledge (as represented in texts) in Late Antiquity? What happens if we apply the notion of knowledge as a product of specific acts and institutions...

...Norman Underwood This article explores the socio-economic aspects of medical care in Late Antiquity with a particular emphasis on how payments and medical costs shaped perceptions of physicians as fee-charging individuals. As it illustrates, criticisms of physicians for greed, hucksterism...