The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World

Claudia Rapp is Professor at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, and Director of the Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Studies, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published widely on hagiography and the cult of saints, episcopal authority and the city, monasticism, and writing culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. She is the author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (2005) and the forthcoming Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual. H. A. Drake is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Constantine and the Bishops (2000). Drake has written extensively on issues related to the transition from a Roman to a Christian empire in Late Antiquity, including political theology and religious violence. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Annenberg Research Institute.

'All students of classical history will find much of value here, but in particular, the chapters offer a fine foundation for study of political thought in Late Antiquity, a new and growing field.' R. I. Frank, Choice

• Introduction: polis – empire – oikoumene: a world reconfigured Claudia Rapp and H. A. Drake; 1. A covenant between gods and men: hiera kai hosia and the Greek polis Josine Blok; 2. Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of world unity Rolf Strootman; 3. Lawyers and citizens from republic to empire: Gaius on the Twelve Tables and Antonine Rome Jill Harries; 4. Laws' empire: universalism and legal practice Caroline Humfress; 5. A most unusual empire: Rome in the fourth century Bryan Ward-Perkins; 6. Mobility and identity between the second and the fourth century CE: the 'cosmopolitization' of the Roman Empire Claudia Moatti; 7. City and citizenship as Christian metaphors in the Greek fathers Claudia Rapp; 8. Church-festival-temple: reimagining civic topography in late antiquity Susanna Elm; 9. Leo the Great: responses to crisis and the shaping of a Christian cosmopolis Michele Renee Salzman; 10. The battle of the maps in a Christian empire Emily Albu; 11. Topographies of power in late antiquity and beyond H. A. Drake; Postscript: cities, citizenship, and the work of empire Clifford Ando.