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That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time systematically, across different regions and over an entire epoch, by examining the change in the inscriptions culture in late antiquity with a view of the Italian peninsula.

The idea of the town in the Byzantine Empire / John Haldon -- Byzantine cities in the seventh and eighth centuries: different sources, different histories? / W. Brandes -- ∫αAnjar and early Islamic urbanism / R. Hillenbrand -- Ideas of the town in Italy during the transition from antiquity to the middle ages / G.P. Brogiolo -- Visual images of the town in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Carlo Bertelli -- The ideology of urban burials / G. Cantino Wataghin -- L'id(c)♭e chr(c)♭tienne de la ville: quelques suggestions pour l'antiquit(c)♭ tardive et le haut moyen age / Alba Maria Orselli -- La topographie chr(c)♭tienne entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / N. Gauthier -- Paganism and Christianity in Athens and vicinity during the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. / P. Castr(c)♭n -- Re-using the architectural legacy of the past, entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Conclusions / G.P. Brogiolo

The connections between preaching, politics, and society have been manifold yet varied in the period from late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In this multi-lingual volume, these associations are studied within their historical context over twelve new contributions, addressing a wide range of geographical areas and opening up a series of sources which have previously been neglected. Special attention is paid to the cultural and geographical circumstances in which the complex relationship between political thought and preaching should be explored. These contributions reveal the circumstances and the procedures that inspire various preachers to reflect upon political topics, which are often of a sensitive nature. In this way, the powerful and the general public of believers have access to an array of political ideas, allowing opinion-making and political discussion

Ancient Greece : some general considerations /Robert Sallares --I terreni sacri nel mondo greco in et àrcaica e classica /Carmine Ampolo --Ancient Greece : some general points /Michel Austin --Seleucid state and the economy /Robert van der Spek --Hellenistic economy /Daniele Foraboschi --Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt /Dominic Rathbone --Politisches system und wirtschaftliche entwicklung in der späten römischen republik /Helmuth Schneider --Comment la res publica ne pouvait pas ne pas influer sur la vie économique /Jean Andreau --Roman state intervention? /Peter Ørsted --Roman principate /Elio Lo Cascio --Governmental roles in the economy of late antiquity /Roger Bagnall --State and aristocracy in the economic evolution of the late empire /Jairus Banaji.

Foreword and acknowledgements / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivaniešević -- Interpreting identity and otherness: historical and archaeological approaches. Ethnicities, entangled identities and otherness in late antique and early medieval Europe. Views for an interdisciplinary research agenda / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivanišević -- The archaeology of identities and alterities. Opposite perspectives for the Early Middle Ages / Sebastian Brather -- Le refus de l'Altérité dans la loi romaine du Bréviaire d'Alaric / Michel Rouche -- Barbaria, Barbaricum and the location of the Barbarus / Michael Kulikowski -- La conversion au Christianisme comme un mécanisme d'Identité et d'Altérité chez les Barbares / Bruno Dumiézil -- Did the Goths really come from Poland? Changing interpretations in changing political situations / Jörg Kleemann -- Forensic anthropology, identification and identity. How it can help the identity and otherness problematic / Luis Ríos Frutos -- Bones don't lie. Bioarchaeological identity and entangled social identities in late antique and early medieval Europe / Jorge López Quiroga -- Ethnicity, social identity, otherness and the archaeological record: case studies. Les antiquités germaniques à l'Est européen au Bas-Empire et à l'époque des Grandes Migrations: État des recherches / Michael Kazanski, Anna Mastykova -- The many identities of the barbarians in the middle Danube Region in the early middle ages / Tivadar Vida -- Social identity on the platter, clay pans in sixth to seventh century ceramic assemblages / Florin Curta -- Ethnicity on the move, new evidence from Viking winter camps / Dawn Hadley -- Otherness and identity in the Merovingian cemetery / Guy Halsall -- Archéologie Funéraire et ethnicité en Gaule à l'́poque mérovingienne (Réponse à Guy Halsall) / Michael Kazanski, Patrick Périn -- Gender, kinship and social identity in the funerary dimensions of the Kingdom of the Lombards (568-774) / Annamaria Pazienza