Approaching Late Antiquity / Wendy Mayer -- The Byzantine Late Antiquity / Stratis Papaiaonnou -- Late Antiquity in the Medieval West / Conrad Leyser -- Cities of the Mind : Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity / Mark Vessey -- Narrating Decline and Fall / Clifford Ando -- Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes / Stefan Rebenich -- The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World : Global and Local Perspectives / Mark Humphries -- Mobility and the Traces of Empire : Blake Leyerle -- Information and Political Power / Claire Sotinel -- Mediterranean Cities / S.T. Loseby -- The Archaeological Record : Problems of Interpretation / Olof Brandt -- Inscribing Identity : The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity / Dennis E. Trout -- Gender and the Fall of Rome / Kate Cooper -- Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West / Judith Evans-Grubbs -- The Church, the Living, and the Dead / Éric Rebillard -- The Value of a Good Education : Libanius and Public Authority / Raffaella Cribiore -- Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Exegesis without End : Forms, Methods and Functions of Biblical Commentaries / Karla Pollmann -- Tradition, Innovation and Epistolary Mores / Jennifer Ebbeler -- Verbal and Visual Representation : Image, Text, Person and Power / James A. Francis -- Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art / Felicity Harley -- The Discourse of Laer Latin / Philip Burton -- Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt / Malcolm Choat -- Late Antique Historiography : A Brief History of Time / David Woods -- Law in Practice / Caroline Humfress Birkbeck -- The Mirror of Jordanes : Concepts of the Barbarian then and Now / Andrew Gillett -- Beyond the Northern Frontiers / Guy Halsall -- From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West / John Vanderspel -- Rome and the Sasanid Empire : Confrontation and Coexistence / Jan Willem Drijvers -- Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West / Christine Shepardsonm -- Syria and the Arabs / David Cook -- The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610--c. AD 75) / Andrew Marsham -- Christianization, Secularization and the Transformation of Public Life / Richard Lim -- The Political Church : Religion and the State / Michael Gaddis -- The Late Antique Bishop : Image and Reality / Rita Lizzi Testa -- The Conduct of Theology and the "Fathers" : of the Church / Thomas Graumann -- Defining Sacred Boundaries : Jewish-Christian Relations / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Pagans in a Christian Empire / Neil McLynn -- "Not of this World" : The Invention of Monasticism.