Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity

Archaeologists, historians, and scholars of classical literature investigate the social world of individuals in late antiquity and integrate the study of social groupings within the trajectory of political change during the period. Among their topics are material culture on the western frontier, monuments and memory in the Forum Romanum, the control of public space and the transformation of the early Medieval town of Brescia, towards an interactive topography of Dark Age Rome, middle class houses, the urban poor, and social and cultural time. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

William Bowden is Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in the archaeology of Roman and late antique Greece and Albania. Recent publications include Epirus Vetus: the Archaeology of a Late Antique Province (2003).Adam Gutteridge is the Artemis A.W. & Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. His Ph.D. (Cambridge University, 2005) considered perceptions of time and temporality in late antique culture.Carlos Machado is a doctoral student in Ancient History, Linacre College at Oxford University, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science (CNPQ). He is working on the political use of space in late antique Rome, and the appropriation of urban space by the senatorial aristocracy. He currently holds a scholarship at the British School at Rome.