Empire and religion in the Roman world /
The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has prod...
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Table of Contents:
- Germs and empire: the agency of the microscopic / Kyle Harperz
- Imperial integration on Rome's Atlantic Rim / Carlos Noreña
- The ambitions of government: sovereignty and control in the ancient countryside / Clifford Ando
- Contingency and context: the origins of the Jewish war against Rome / Erich S. Gruen
- The first Christian family of Egypt / Sabine R. Huebner
- Missionaries, pious merchants, freelance religious experts, and the spread of Christianity / Éric Rebillard
- Christian piety in late antiquity: contexts and contestations / Claudia Rapp
- Ausonius at the edge of empire: consular poetics as cognitive improvisation / Mark Vessey
- Peregrinationes in Psalmos / Catherine Conybeare
- Muhammad's rivals: prophets in late antique Arabia / Glen W. Bowersock
- Epilogue: Brent Shaw: An Intellectual Profile / Peter Brown
- Bibliography of Brent Shaw's publications to 2020.
