Includes bibliographical references and index

The Western Kingdoms / Michael Kulikowski -- Barbarians: Problems and Approaches / Michael Maas -- The Balkans / Craig H. Caldwell III -- Armenia / Tim Greenwood -- Central Asia and the Silk Road / Étienne de la Vaissière -- Syriac and the "Syrians" / Phillip Wood -- Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- The Coptic Tradition / Anne Boud'hors -- Arabia and Ethiopia / Christian Julien Robin -- Latin Poetry / Scott McGill -- Greek Poetry / Gianfranco Agosti -- Historiography / Brian Croke -- Hellenism and Its Discontents / Aaron P. Johnson -- Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing / Edward Watts -- Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage / Samuel Rubenson -- Physics and Metaphysics / Gregory Smith -- Travel, Cartography, and Cosmology / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- Economic Trajectories / Jarius Banaji -- Concerning Rural Matters / Cam Grey -- Marriage and Family / Kyle Harper -- Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital / Peregrine Horden -- Concepts of Citizenship / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Justice and Equality / Kevin Uhalde -- Roman Law and Legal Culture / Jill Harries -- Communication in Late Antiquity: Use and Reuse / Andrew Gillett -- Paganism and Christianization / Jaclyn Maxwell -- Episcopal Leadership / David M. Gwynn -- Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery / Susan Wessel -- Sacred Space and Visual Art / Ann Marie Yasin -- Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer / Glenn Peers -- From Nisibis to Xi'an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia / Joel Walker -- Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion / Robert Hoyland -- Muḥammad and the Qur'ān / Stephen J, Shoemaker -- Comparative State Formation: The Later Roman Empire in the Wider World / John Haldon -- Late Antiquity in Byzantium -- Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance / Christopher S. Celenza