| Contents |
Difficillima tempora : urban life, inscriptions, and mentality in late antique Rome / G. Alföldy -- Autun and the civitas aeduorum : maintaining and transforming a regional identity in late antiquity / B.K. Young -- Alexandria and the Mareotis region / C. Haas -- The case of late antique Berytus : urban wealth and rural sustenance : a different economic dynamic / L.J. Hall -- Urban space in Caesarea Maritima, Israel / J. Patrich -- Byzantine petra : a reassessment / Z.T. Fiema -- Women and horses and power and war / J.F. Drinkwater -- The interdependence of town and country in late antique Spain / M. Kulikowski -- Towns, vici and villae : late Roman military society on the frontiers of the province Valeria / Z. Visy -- Archaeological perspectives on rural settlement in late antiquity in the Rhine and Danube area / H. Bender -- Peasants as 'makeshift soldiers for the occasion' : sixth-century settlement patterns in the Balkans / F. Curta -- Town and countryside in Roman Arabia during late antiquity / D.F. Graf -- Rural society and economy in late Roman Cyprus / M. Rautman -- Pastoral care : town and country in late-antique preaching / E.G. Clark -- The continuity of paganism between the cities and countryside of late Roman Africa / D. Riggs -- From pagan to Christian in cities of Roman Anatolia during the fourth and fifth centuries / K. Harl -- '... Nec sedere in villam' : villa churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy / K. Bowers -- Christianizing the Syrian countryside : an archaeological and architectural approach / F.L. Kidner. |
| General note | Contributions to the Third Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Emory University, March 1999. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2001 |
| LCCN | 00013228 |
| ISBN | 0870135856 |
| ISBN | 9780870135859 |
