Description
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
About the Author
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hagg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).
Book Information
ISBN 9781118255315
Author Philip Rousseau
Format Paperback
Page Count 736
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1107g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 34mm
- Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
- Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era
- Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
- Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
- Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
About the Author
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Early Christian Centuries (2002), Basil of Caesarea (1994), Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985), and Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome (1978). He is the joint editor (with Tomas Hagg) of Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000).
Book Information
ISBN 9781118255315
Author Philip Rousseau
Format Paperback
Page Count 736
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1107g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 34mm
