Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

Zusatztext The professional historian will use this book as a handy source of reference. The general reader will enjoy it as providing a fascinating account of a period of history which is not well known. Informationen zum Autor Scott Johnson is Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, and the author of 'The Life and Miracles of Thekla, A Literary Study' (Harvard), and editor of 'Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism' (Ashgate). Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
• Assisted by: Scott Johnson (Editor), Scott (Georgetown University) Johnson (Editor), Scott F. Johnson (Editor), Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780195336931
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533693-1
• No. of pages: 1312
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 254 mm x 60 mm
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory