Journal of Late Antiquity, volume 8, no. 1 (Spring 2015)

CONTENTS

Style and Substance: A Bust of a Sasanian Royal Woman as a Symbol of Late Antique Legitimacy
Vanessa Rousseau, Peter Northover

Augustine and Men of Imperial Power
Brent D. Shaw

Arab Tribesmen and Desert Frontiers in Late Antiquity
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz

Taxpayers and Their Money in Sixth-Century Egypt: Currency in the Temseu Skordon Codex
Leslie S. B. MacCoull

The Social Networks of Justinian’s Generals
David Alan Parnell

Knowledge and Virtue in the Regula Pastoralis of Gregory the Great: The Development of Christian Argumentation for the Late Sixth Century
Julia Dietrich

Religious Viewing of Sculptural Images of Gods in the World of Late Antiquity: From Dio Chrysostom to Damaskios
Georgios Deligiannakis

Schism and the Polemic of Heresy: Manichaeism and the Representation of Papal Authority in the Liber Pontificalis
Samuel Cohen

REVIEWS

Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity by Ariane Magny
Aaron P. Johnson

Between Pagan and Christian by Christopher P. Jones
H.A. Drake

Der Kaiser als Sieger. Metamophosen triumphaler Herrschaft unter Constantin I by Johannes Wienand
Noel Lenski

The Laughter of Sarah: Biblical Exegesis, Feminist Theory, and the Concept of Delight by Catherine Conybeare
Stephen Halliwell

Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy by Christine Shepardson
Jaclyn Maxwell

Ambassadeurs et ambassades au coeur des relations diplomatiques. Rome – Occident médiéval – Byzance (VIIIe s. avant J.-C. - XIIe s. après J.-C.) ed. by Audrey Becker and Nicolas Drocourt
Dominic Moreau

Ostia in Late Antiquity by Douglas Boin
Michael Mulryan

Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused by Garth Fowden
Stephen J. Shoemaker