Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the
increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the …

This thesis investigates evidence for the cultural lives of domestic objects in Late Antiquity.
As such, it focuses on objects as meaningful possessions, rather than their practical …

The idea for this book began about ten years ago. I was beginning my PhD studies at the
University of Toronto and signed up for a class, taught by the inspiring AC Murray, on …

This essay discusses letter-exchange as a multimedia and partly ritualized form of
communication. It focuses on the role of the bearer, not only as a channel for the message …

Scholarly analysis of pre-modern literature usually operates with classifications. To classify
means to detect and rubricate similarities within a certain corpus of texts or literary genres …

While some letters from Merovingian-era Gaul are well known—for example, Remigius's
letters to Clovis or Radegund's letters founding her monastery—the scale and scope of …

This chapter uncovers the oral elements of the ancient epistolary experience by considering
the role of late antique letter-carriers, who would animate written letters by reading them …

This paper presents an overview of land routes in Byzantine Anatolia during the period
between the fourth and seventh centuries CE and aims to explain the development of the …

The Greek language in late antiquity served as a lingua franca for daily life, was a major
literary language, and also held a social role that went beyond the literature written in it …

The study of time as a crucial constituent of Sidonius's correspondence has much to gain by
it being seen in light of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the" chronotope" and the various forms …