Applies ideas drawn from the history of secular life, judicial and political history, social customs, religious psychology, linguistics, and folklore to works o

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of la

This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in En

Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation