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"Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity brings together scientific, archaeological and historical evidence on the interplay of social change and environmental phenomena at the end of Antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages, covering the period ca. 300-800 AD. It gives a new impetus to the study of the environmental history of this crucial period of transition between two major epochs in premodern history. The volume contains both systematic overviews of the previous scholarship and available data, as well as a number of interdisciplinary case studies. It covers a wide range of topics, including the histories of landscape, climate, disease and earthquakes, all intertwined with social, cultural, economic and political developments"--

The imperial legislation of Theodosian and Justinian codes pays attention above all to the archiatri sacri palatii and to the Roman archiatri. Her lexicon is ambiguous and it is difficult to understand by the legislation what the term archiater really means in Late Antiquity. Prosopographical analysis allows to outile various social figures of medical doctors: archiatri of the sacred palace, iatrosophistai, civic physicians, statal physicians, military and ecclesiastical ones. By some epitaphs of the 5th century emerges that physicians were conscious of the social role of medicine, and they were proud of it. Medicina was thought in contemporary culture as ars honesta; this fact implies that, on the average, her practicioners were placed on the same level of craftsmen and tradesmen (i. e. viri honesti). In spite of the christian thought increased her attention on medical assistance of the poors, the physician's position lost his own visibility in our sources between the 5th to the 7th century. This fact is due to the change in thinking the concept of sickness: in christian world, sickness is not only a physical deficiency but becomes also a spiritual deficiency. Consequently the saint, and not the physician, becomes the symbolic figure whom people entrusts his own anxiety of salvation. Key words: Physician - Late Antique Italy - Byzantine Italy - Social History

From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.

Preliminary Material Volume 1 /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Waging War in Late Antiquity /Alexander Sarantis -- War in Late Antiquity: Secondary Works, Literary Sources and Material Evidence /Conor Whately -- Military Equipment and Weaponry: A Bibliographic Essay /Alexander Sarantis -- Tactics: A Bibliographic Essay /Alexander Sarantis -- Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay /Conor Whately -- Strategy, Diplomacy and Frontiers: A Bibliographic Essay /Conor Whately -- Fortifications in the West: A Bibliographic Essay /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Fortifications in Africa: A Bibliography Essay /Alexander Sarantis -- Fortifications in the East: A Bibliographic Essay /Alexander Sarantis -- Preliminary Material Volume 2 /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Information and War: Some Comments on Defensive Strategy and Information in the Middle Byzantine Period (ca. A.D. 660–1025) /John Haldon -- Fortifications and the Late Roman East: From Urban Walls to Long Walls /James Crow -- Siege Warfare and Counter-Siege Tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250–640) /Michael Whitby -- Late Roman Military Equipment Culture /J. C. N. Coulston -- Barbarian Military Equipment and its Evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd–5th c. A.D.) /Michel Kazanski -- Recreating the Late Roman Army /John Conyard -- Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and Agathias: Classicising Historians' Use of Archived Documents as Sources /Ian Colvin -- Procopius on the Struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537–38: Reconciling Texts and Landscapes /Christopher Lillington-Martin -- Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene Handover of A.D. 363 /Susannah Belcher -- Imperial Campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284–423: the Rhine Frontier and the Western Provinces /Hugh Elton -- The Archaeology of War and the 5th c. 'Invasions' /Michael Kulikowski -- Controlling the Pyrenees: a Macaque's Burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain) /Oriol Olesti , Jordi Guàrdia , Marta Maragall , Oriol Mercadal , Jordi Galbany and Jordi Nadal -- The Archaeology of War: Homeland Security in the South-West Balkans (3rd–6th c. A.D.) /John Wilkes -- Military Encounters and Diplomatic Affairs in the North Balkans during the Reigns of Anastasius and Justinian /Alexander Sarantis -- Horsemen in Forts or Peasants in Villages? Remarks on the Archaeology of Warfare in the 6th to 7th c. Balkans /Florin Curta -- Military Infrastructure in the Roman Provinces North and South of the Armenian Taurus in Late Antiquity /James Howard-Johnston -- El-Lejjūn: Logistics and Localisation on Rome's Eastern Frontier in the 6th c. A.D. /Conor Whately -- Wars within the Frontiers: Archaeologies of Rebellion, Revolt and Civil War /Neil Christie -- The Justinianic Reconquest of Italy: Imperial Campaigns and Local Responses /Maria Kouroumali -- Abstracts in French /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Index /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Series Information /Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society -- 1. Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin -- 2. Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models -- 3. History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia -- 4. When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets -- 5. The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron -- 6. Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television Set -- Conclusions: Soviet Objects and Socialist Modernity -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves.

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves"--

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.