Important new volume on Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire. Table of Contents here: Preface (Rosa Sanz Serrano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 1. The Last Pagan at the Court of Zeno: Poetry and Politics of Pamprepios of Panopolis (Enrico Livrea, Università di Firenze) 2. Bar Sauma versus Dushara: The Christianisation of Petra and its Surroundings (Carmen Blánquez Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 3. Religious Conflict in Late Antique Egypt: Urban and Rural Contexts (Clelia Martínez Maza, Universidad de Málaga). 4. The Portrait of Seleukeia in the Miracles of Saint Thekla (Ángel Narro, Universidad de Valencia) 5. Poetry and Philosophy at the Boundaries of Byzantium (5th-7th Centuries): Some Methodological Remarks on the Nonnians (David Hernández de la Fuente, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) 6. Byzantium and the Eastern Frontier (Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, Freie Universität Berlin) 7. New Alphabets for the Christian Nations: Frontier Strategies in the Byzantine Commonwealth between the 4th and 10th Centuries (Juan Signes Codoñer, Universidad de Valladolid) 8. Synesios of Cyrene and the Defence of Cyrenaica (Ana de Francisco Heredero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 9. One Elephant and Two Giraffes on the Incense Route (Ángel del Río Alda, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 10. The Influence of the Orient on the Dramatic Representation of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae: Staging, Conduct and Ornament (Isabel Moreno Ferrero, Universidad de Salamanca) 11. Centring Constantinople in Himerios’ Oratio 41 (Fotini Hadjittofi, Universidade de Lisboa). 12. Speculation and Crisis: Some Examples in the Eastern Provinces of the Later Roman Empire (Juan J. Ferrer-Maestro, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón) 13. Between the Third Rome and the New Jerusalem: The Fall of Constantinople Viewed by Russians (Susana Torres Prieto, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid) 14. From vetus Byzantium (Amm. 22.8.8) to urbs regia: Representation of Constantinople in Late Roman Empire Laws (José Luis Cañizar Palacios, Universidad de Cádiz) 15. The So-Called “collatio lustralis” in Postclassical Period: A Tax Feared by Traders and Artisans (José María Blanch Nougués, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 16. On the Legal and Social Status of Theatre Actors in Late Antique Law (Elena Quintana Orive, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Universidad Nebrija, Madrid) 17. The Fanatic is a Fan in a Madhouse: Urban Piracy and the Roman Circus (David Álvarez Jiménez, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja) 18. Latest Views on the Fall and Ruin of the Roman Empire (José María Blázquez, Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid)
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