I have pointed here to one of these narratives, which in my view threatens to sideline Byzantium. For the first time, John Hayes's Late Roman Pottery (1972) enabled reliable dating criteria for the ceramic evidence that became the foundation of a new understanding of trade and economic life.Footnote 3 The UNESCO Save Carthage campaign, a landmark in the reliable recording of excavations of the late antique period, began in the following year, and since then the growth in data has been exponential. These included the huge contemporary production of florilegia of proof texts and the development of anti-heretical and anti-Jewish themes. A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey, 2 vols. A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, c. 395–700. Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity(Leiden 2011)Google Scholar; Santo, M. 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Eberhard Sauer (Editor); Jebrael Nokandeh (Editor); Hamid Omrani Rekavandi (Editor), Regular Price: A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey, The Inheritance of Rome. This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Early Middle Ages Introduction During the period of late antiquity and Byzantium, philosophical thinking about art and beauty was influenced by and indeed conceived in terms of Neoplatonism, especially that of Plotinus (c. 205–270 A.D.), and even more so of Christian theology. 43 Lateran council: Concilium Lateranense a. "Sogdiana, its Christians, and Byzantium: a Study of Artistic and Cultural Connections in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Department of Art History, Indiana University, 40 See especially Menze, V.-L., Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Oxford 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 1975 seems light years away. The cake can be cut in different ways. Total loading time: 0.588 Latin in Byzantium I: Late Antiquity and Beyond: Garcea, Alessandro: Amazon.nl Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature (Philadelphia 2013)Google Scholar. An Archaeological Assessment (London 2007)Google Scholar. Download Citation | Late antiquity and Byzantium: An identity problem | 1975 seems light years away. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor (Oxford 2016)Google Scholar, containing in particular an important new chronology of the many works of Maximus and of his own movements, drawing on the Syriac Life, by M. Jankowiack and P. Booth, ‘A new date-list of the works of Maximus the Confessor’, The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor, 19–83; Booth, P., Crisis of Empire. (Berlin 2013). Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Antiquity, Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850. 37 http://www.mizanproject.org, accessed 29.9.15, citing Fowden's book with approval as a way of combating the ‘clash of civilizations’ approach. 33 Key publications include Flusin, B., Saint Anastase le Perse et l’histoire de la Palestine au début du VIIe siècle, 2 vols. It is worth noting that Brown's World of Late Antiquity is very much a work of social history rather than discourse analysis. From Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad, Marx, Sherlock Holmes and late Roman commerce. The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year existence of the Byzantine Empire. Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity, Debating the Saints’ Cult in the Age of Gregory the Great, The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, There is No Crime for Those who Have Christ, Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt : Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II. Byzantine historians, and historians on Byzantium, Byzantine Narrative. "languageSwitch": true, 2016)Google Scholar, in comparison with Haldon, Byzantium in the Seventh Century. "shouldUseHypothesis": true, 31 On which see Silverstein, A. and Stroumsa, G. G. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Abrahamic Religions (Oxford 2016)Google Scholar, with Stroumsa, G. G., The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2016)Google Scholar; this growing subject is supported by newly funded chairs at both Oxford and Cambridge. Were tasks performed by slaves in Antiquity carried out by free people in Late Antiquity? Yet there are losses as well as gains in any periodization. The associations of the term Byzantium can certainly still get in the way, and there are still genuine arguments to be made about periodization and definition, but these are more an internal matter within historiography than real issues. The first issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies was published only four years after Peter Brown’s The World of Late Antiquity, 1 and before the ‘explosion’ of late antiquity. Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity I Convegno Internazionale di Antichità – Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata' £ 65.00 29 Meier, Das andere Zeitalter Justinians; stress on the role of apocalypticism in late antiquity points in the same direction: e.g. 21 Many interesting papers in Greatrex and Elton (eds), Shifting Genres; a major research project led by Peter Van Nuffelen is directed at the subject of historiography in this period, and see Van Nuffelen, , ‘Greek secular historians in late antiquity’, review-discussion, Histos 9 (2016), ix-xv (online)Google Scholar. 649 celebratum, ed. 1 Brown, Peter, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150–750. "isUnsiloEnabled": true 45 It should be pointed out that in many archaeological publications about the Near East, especially by Israeli scholars, the term ‘Byzantine’ is used descriptively to refer to the chronological period supposedly ending with the advent of Islamic rule, in a periodization that makes a sharp break with the Arab conquests; however recent research emphasizes continuity into the Islamic period: see Walmsley, A., Early Islamic Syria. The first issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies was published only four years after Peter Brown’s The World of Late Antiquity,Footnote 1 and before the ‘explosion’ of late antiquity.Footnote 2 This was also the start of another explosion: the emergence of late antique archaeology as a discipline, leading to its vast expansion and the enormous and ever-growing amount of material available today. Kaldellis, , The Byzantine Republic. Décadence. 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It was already controversial among Byzantinists – was it the end of the Roman empire or just possibly the beginning of Byzantium?Footnote 5 Gibbon is not the only historian who has found the sixth century puzzling,Footnote 6 while recent publications insisting on a fifth-century fall of the Roman empire in the west also leave the sixth-century east exposed. 39 See Haldon, J. F., The Empire that Would Not Die. This move brings about its own further dynamics and responses. 22 Kaldellis, A., Procopius of Caesarea. Jh. An Archaeological Assessment, http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/late-antiquity-and-the-new-humanities-an-open-forum/. In responding to these issues from the Byzantine point of view, the seventh century is no less critical than the sixth. Kontingenzerfahrung und Kontingenzbewältigung im 6. Kontingenzerfahrung und Kontingenzbewältigung im 6. ‘Decline and Fall’ or ‘Other Antiquity’? Studi Storici 45.1 (2004) 5–46Google Scholar. Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance, Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian, Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian. Johnson, S. F., (Oxford 2012), 1053–77Google Scholar; in terms of Qur’anic analysis a key scholar in this regard is Angelika Neuwirth, for instance see her Der Koran als Text der Spätantike: ein europäischer Zugang, 3rd ed. Religious unity was and remained a prime concern for emperors in the seventh century just as in the sixth, and as a result of this recent work we are in a far better position to understand the dynamics involved. "figures": false, 2004)Google Scholar. Hexter, R. J. and Townsend, D. (Oxford 2012) 509–34Google Scholar and cf. 4 See among many publications the group of articles in Journal of Late Antiquity 1 (2008), with A. 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In addition the separation of the Chalcedonian and Miaphysite churches from the sixth century on has become a major subject for historians,Footnote 40 like the local reactions to the Persian occupation of Palestine, and the role of Christian communities in the Sasanian empire.Footnote 41 Another landmark in recent scholarship is provided by the publication of detailed commentaries and translations of sixth and seventh century councils,Footnote 42 together with an increasing awareness of and interest in the modes and techniques of argumentation used here and in other contemporary works. Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, ... of more than 150 synagogues throughout the empire make clear that Jews were integral to the urban landscape of late antiquity, well beyond the borders of Roman Palestine. Central to the sixth century is the reign of Justinian, yet, as has been noted, it is striking that despite numerous shorter treatments the years since the first issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies have not seen another work on the scale of E. Stein's Histoire du Bas-Empire II, published in French in 1959.Footnote 8 Why is this? 6 Cameron, Averil, ‘Gibbon and Justinian’, in McKitterick, R. and Quinault, R. (eds), Edward Gibbon and Empire (Cambridge 1997) 34–52Google Scholar. Meier, M., Das andere Zeitalter Justinians. Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from … JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. The presence or absence of theology and religious thought in secular writing in the late antique east, An Age of Saints? Scepticism: Sarris, P., Santo, M. Dal and Booth, P., eds., An Age of Saints? Riedinger, Rudolf, Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum 2.1 (Berlin 1984)Google Scholar; Price, R., with Booth, P. and Cubitt, C., trans. 5 See Allen, P. and Jeffreys, E. (eds), The Sixth Century: End or Beginning? As ways of understanding transitions and the sweep of history on a wider scale, both narratives are deficient, and both rely on hidden assumptions and prejudices. 44 Theology is played down by Brubaker, L. and Haldon, J. F., Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850. Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. "openAccess": "0", 23 See Formisano, M., ‘Towards an aesthetic paradigm of late antiquity’, Antiquité Tardive 15 (2007) 277–84CrossRefGoogle Scholar, with Formisano, , ‘Late antiquity: new departures’, in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, ed. 10 Though see Kelly, C., Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Cambridge, Mass. Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature, The Byzantine Republic. 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Copyright © Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 2016, Hostname: page-component-77fc7d77f9-cdnjt They should not lead to the exclusion of Byzantium, whether from narratives of transition focused on the eastern Mediterranean and pointing towards Islam, or from narratives of a transition from classical antiquity to western Europe, pointing inexorably to the Enlightenment. Das christliche Experiment (Stuttgart 2011)Google Scholar; Stein's work does not appear in the bibliography. The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700 (Oxford 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, combines a Mediterranean-wide perspective, discussion of the fall of the Roman empire in the west and a periodization of 500–700, which includes the rise of Islam. 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