One of the great virtues of the collection is its ecumenical reach.... The volume's worth, therefore, resides most immediately in the strength of its individual contributions.... Approaching Late Antiquity tells its stories well.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Economic Change and the Transition to Late Antiquity ; 3. A New Golden Age? The Northern Praefactura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian ; 4. Transition and Change in Diocletian's Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late Third Century ; 5. Roman Law 200 to 400 AD: From Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat? ; 6. Roman Citizenship and Roman Law in the Late Empire ; 7. Emperors and Armies, AD 235-395 ; 8. Romanitas and the Church of Rome ; 9. Pagan and Christian Monotheism in the Age of Constantine ; 10. The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century ; 11. Late Antique Art: the Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic ; 12. Painted Hellenes: Mummy Portraits from Late Roman Egypt ; 13. Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity ; 14. Sophists and Emperors: the Case of Libanius ; 15. Philosophy as a Profession in Late Antiquity

One of the great virtues of the collection is its ecumenical reach.... The volume's worth, therefore, resides most immediately in the strength of its individual contributions.... Approaching Late Antiquity tells its stories well.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Economic Change and the Transition to Late Antiquity ; 3. A New Golden Age? The Northern Praefactura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian ; 4. Transition and Change in Diocletian's Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late Third Century ; 5. Roman Law 200 to 400 AD: From Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat? ; 6. Roman Citizenship and Roman Law in the Late Empire ; 7. Emperors and Armies, AD 235-395 ; 8. Romanitas and the Church of Rome ; 9. Pagan and Christian Monotheism in the Age of Constantine ; 10. The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century ; 11. Late Antique Art: the Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic ; 12. Painted Hellenes: Mummy Portraits from Late Roman Egypt ; 13. Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity ; 14. Sophists and Emperors: the Case of Libanius ; 15. Philosophy as a Profession in Late Antiquity

One of the great virtues of the collection is its ecumenical reach.... The volume's worth, therefore, resides most immediately in the strength of its individual contributions.... Approaching Late Antiquity tells its stories well.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Economic Change and the Transition to Late Antiquity ; 3. A New Golden Age? The Northern Praefactura Urbi from the Severans to Diocletian ; 4. Transition and Change in Diocletian's Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late Third Century ; 5. Roman Law 200 to 400 AD: From Cosmopolis to Rechtstaat? ; 6. Roman Citizenship and Roman Law in the Late Empire ; 7. Emperors and Armies, AD 235-395 ; 8. Romanitas and the Church of Rome ; 9. Pagan and Christian Monotheism in the Age of Constantine ; 10. The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century ; 11. Late Antique Art: the Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic ; 12. Painted Hellenes: Mummy Portraits from Late Roman Egypt ; 13. Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity ; 14. Sophists and Emperors: the Case of Libanius ; 15. Philosophy as a Profession in Late Antiquity