Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown. Edited by Philip Rousseau and Manolis Papoutsakis
This volume is an offering to Peter Brown on his seventieth birthday. Its eighteen contributions, all by renowned colleagues of Brown’s, deal with a common theme close to Brown’s own scholarly heart: ‘transformations’. The phrase, as understood in each contribution, can refer to the subject matter i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 763-766 |
| Review of: | Transformations of late Antiquity (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2009) (Lössl, Josef)
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| Summary: | This volume is an offering to Peter Brown on his seventieth birthday. Its eighteen contributions, all by renowned colleagues of Brown’s, deal with a common theme close to Brown’s own scholarly heart: ‘transformations’. The phrase, as understood in each contribution, can refer to the subject matter itself, the historical period of Late Antiquity and various aspects of it, but also to the way this subject matter has been studied in recent decades. Thus Robert Markus discusses ‘Transformations of Late Antique Christianity’ in the time between Henri-Irenée Marrou and Peter Brown (pp. 1–13), Averil Cameron looks at ‘Roman Studies in Sixth-Century Constantinople’ (pp. 15–36), Glen Bowersock extends the topic to the Near East (pp. 37–49), while Sebastian Brock and Sidney H. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq058 |