Violence in Late Antiquity ─ Perceptions And Practices

Scholars of history and literature in the US and Europe present 27 papers from the March 2003 Shifting Frontiers Conference, held in Santa Barbara, California. Violence is so heavily associated in late antiquity that few have thought to study it, but here specialists in western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam and in different centuries cross previously inviolable disciplinary boundaries to consider the larger picture as they discuss the prevalence of violence, legitimate violence, violence and rhetoric, and religious violence. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Harold A. Drake is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.