Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.681
Anna Lefteratou
This article illustrates how a classicizing verse rendering of the Fourth Gospel, Nonnus’s fifth-century Paraphrasis of St John’s Gospel, evokes a twofold concept of Christian rulership that is simultaneously heavenly and terrestrial. It argues that the description of the Crucifixion and Entombment scenes offer a twofold panorama of the late antique world with an emphasis not only on the religious symbolism of these events but also on their importance for the crafting of the aspirations of the imperial church. Through typological interpretation, Platonic hues, classical intertextuality, and descriptions of objects connecting the heavenly and earthly realms, the poem hints at the universalist aspirations of Roman imperial Christianity, as seen from the focus on material details that the poem uses to map its version of the Christian ecumene.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.416
K. Bloomfield
This paper focuses on the garrison stationed at the frontier fort of Gholaia (Bu Njem), located in the Tripolitanian interior, throughout the sixty years of the outpost’s existence during the third century CE. It asks how the military community functioned on a day-to-day basis while living in an oasis environment. The study makes use of the extensive epigraphic material recovered at the fort. It includes not only 150 ostraca but also a poem documenting the travails of life in the desert, written by the commanding centurion and placed in the encampment’s bathhouse. Analysis of the available evidence identifies three immediate and persistent vulnerabilities that the occupation of Gholaia precipitated—namely, the oasis’s inadequacy to feed its residents, an insufficient supply of wood to meet the population’s demands, and the presence of endemic disease. It finds that the garrison was able to limit the danger imposed by the challenges, but not solve them on a permanent basis, through modifications to the normal practices of army life found at any legionary encampment in the empire. In so doing, the institution and operation of these behaviors on the part of the soldiers acquired newfound significance. The climatic context of the desert oasis imparted an immediacy to the performance of everyday life by making mere existence at the fort so perceptibly arduous.
本文的重点是驻扎在Gholaia (Bu Njem)边境要塞的驻军，位于的黎波里塔尼亚内陆，在公元三世纪哨所存在的六十年中。它询问了在绿洲环境中生活的军事社区如何日常运作。这项研究利用了在堡垒中发现的大量铭文材料。它不仅包括150个鸵鸟，还有一首记录沙漠生活艰辛的诗，由指挥的百夫长写的，放在营地的澡堂里。对现有证据的分析确定了占领Gholaia造成的三个直接和持续的脆弱性，即绿洲无法满足居民的需求，木材供应不足以满足人口需求，以及地方性疾病的存在。它发现，驻军能够限制挑战带来的危险，但不能永久地解决它们，通过修改帝国任何军团营地的正常军队生活惯例。在这样做的过程中，士兵的这些行为的制度和操作获得了新的意义。沙漠绿洲的气候环境赋予了日常生活的直接表现，使堡垒的存在如此明显地困难。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.551
B. Ihssen
{"title":"Review: The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium, by Daniel Caner","authors":"B. Ihssen","doi":"10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36675,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Late Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66953060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.553
A. Lopez
{"title":"Review: The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity, by Jean-Luc Fournet","authors":"A. Lopez","doi":"10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36675,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Late Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66953071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A fragment of a previously unknown manuscript of the anonymous late antique text known as the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum (Collation of the Laws of Moses and of the Romans) or as the Lex Dei (Law of God) was recently discovered in the Zadar State Archives in Croatia. This bifolium seems to come from a lost ninth-century manuscript of the work. It had been reused as the cover of a registry book by the notary Articutius in 1403. While recent examination of this new fragment in the context of the manuscript tradition of the work has suggested more information about the lost manuscript and the legal culture of medieval Dalmatian cities, examination of the manuscript tradition and handling of the Collatio by other medieval authors can provide some insight into the broader use of the Collatio in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and even into the reception of Roman law in the early medieval West.
最近在克罗地亚的扎达尔国家档案馆发现了一份以前不为人知的手稿碎片，这份手稿被称为《摩西和罗马人的律法汇编》(Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum)或《上帝的律法》。这种两极化似乎来自于一份丢失的九世纪的手稿。1403年，公证人阿提提乌斯(Articutius)将它重新用作登记簿的封面。虽然最近在该作品的手稿传统背景下对这一新片段的研究表明了更多关于丢失的手稿和中世纪达尔马提亚城市法律文化的信息，但对手稿传统的研究和其他中世纪作者对Collatio的处理可以提供一些见解，了解Collatio在古代晚期和中世纪的更广泛使用，甚至了解中世纪早期西方对罗马法的接受。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.2.217
Matthew J. Chalmers
This article treats the intersection of a “peripheral people”—specifically Samaritan Israelites—with scholarly narratives of disaster concerning Late Antiquity. A disaster is not so much a one-off event as an ongoing series of collective experiences, patterned and repatterned in the movements of bodies and through shared—if unstable—narrative. This article, leaning into this phenomenological complexity, attends to the shared discourse of disaster as a practice of scholarly fields concerned with the study of Late Antiquity. I highlight a scholarly tendency to rely on disaster and its related tropes as it scripts the history of a group often classified as peripheral: Samaritan Israelites. In the case of the Samaritans, rich and varied evidence from Late Antiquity is compressed into a dominant portrayal of a group set on a collision course with the Roman Empire. Examining how this compression happens equips us to better identify the powers of historiographical curation, especially with respect to groups perceived as historical (and/or present) minorities, in shaping narratives. In this article, I ask both a historical question—when and whether disaster struck—and a historiographical one—what does it mean for disaster to provide us with a historiographical vocabulary at all, and to which groups do we tend to apply it?
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.707
Edward M. Schoolman
For much of Italy, the second half of the sixth century was fraught with danger: sporadic warfare, conquest, pandemic, and climate change, in addition to further crises catalyzed by these events such as famine and economic decline. While the impacts of these events are frequently recorded in written sources, sometimes in parallel with the archaeological records, a different story emerges from the fossil pollen records reflecting the ecology of human-managed landscapes. Taking two sites as case studies, a local perspective from Rieti in central Italy and a larger regional synthesis from Sicily, we see records that demonstrate the impact of different human drivers. The arrival of the Lombards and changing economic and administrative systems were the main factors in the transformation of landscapes during this period as local communities continued the management of their agricultural, pastoral, and silvicultural resources.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.734
H. Hamerow
{"title":"Archaeology and History: A Late Antiquity for Britain","authors":"H. Hamerow","doi":"10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36675,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Late Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66952784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.557
Jeffrey Wickes
{"title":"Review: Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and His Significance in Late Antiquity, by Sebastian P. Brock","authors":"Jeffrey Wickes","doi":"10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36675,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Late Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66953143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/sla.2022.6.2.370
Eric J. Fournier
{"title":"Review: A Companion to Julian the Apostate, edited by Stefan Rebenich and Hans-Ulrich Wiemer","authors":"Eric J. Fournier","doi":"10.1525/sla.2022.6.2.370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.2.370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36675,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Late Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66952220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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