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When did Late Antiquity actually end? Peter Brown, who has done so much to define the field, once replied: 'always later than you think'. This book takes stock of this insight and, in continual conversation with Peter Brown's work, applies it to ever wider social and geopolitical horizons. The essays of this volume demonstrate that Late Antiquity is not just a period in which the late Roman world grew into the three successor cultures of the Roman Empire - the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic world - but also a set of hermeneutical tools for exploring historical transformation. A late antique view considers both the profound plurality of past societies and the surprising instances when a culture coheres out of those differences. The studies here follow those motions of fracture and alignment, and they show how working along the lines of a single but deeply textured vision of Late Antiquity makes it possible to integrate different fields such as Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic studies, and to start a new conversation between ancient and medieval history.

Table of Contents Motions of Late Antiquity:

• An Introduction -Jamie Kreiner and Helmut Reimitz
• 'There is a world elsewhere': The World of Late Antiquity - Ian Wood
• The Transformation of the Roman World Revisited - Walter Pohl
• Divisive Practices? Social Implications of Manichaean Cosmology and Ritual - Philippa Townsend
• Scholars, Peasants, and Monks in the Life of Hypatius - Jaclyn Maxwell
• The Powerful and the Persuaders in Fifth-Century Iberia - Damián Fernández
• Religious Violence and Christianization in Jacob of Sarug's On the Fall of the Idols - Daniel L. Schwartz
• Philoxenos of Mabbug: A Cappadocian Theologian on the Banks of the Euphrates? - David A. Michelson
• The Equality of Empires: Procopius on Adoption and Guardianship across Imperial Borders -Michael Maas
• Life on Schedule: Monks and the Agricultural Cycle in Late Antique Egypt - Ariel Lopez
• Gregory's Kings, the Theatre of the 'Modern', and the Endurance of Romanitas - Philip Rousseau
• The Dark Side of Holiness: Coercion, Conversion, Climination, and Barsauma 'the Roasted' - Volker Menze
• Christian Identity in the Seventh Century Byzantium: The Case of Anastasius of Sinai - Yannis Papadogiannakis
• Nationes quam plures conquiri. Amandus of Maastricht, compulsory baptism and 'Christian universal mission' in seventh-century Gaul - Stefan Esders Monothelitism: The View from the Edge - Jack Tannous
• Revisiting the Carolingian Renaissance - Janet Nelson

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