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    Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century...
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    Christianity in late antiquity traces Christianity during the Christian Roman Empire — the period from the rise of Christianity under Emperor Constantine...
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  • Classical antiquity, the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean such as Greece and Rome Late antiquity, the period between classical antiquity and the...
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    Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history...
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  • World of Late Antiquity is a 1971 book by historian Peter Brown. The book was one of the first in the anglophone world to consider late antiquity as a distinct...
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  • The Journal of Late Antiquity is an academic journal and the first international English-language journal devoted to the Late Antiquity. The journal was...
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    The Papacy in late antiquity was a period in papal history between 313, when the Peace in the Church began, and the pontificate of Simplicius in 476, when...
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    In classical and late antiquity wreaths or crowns (Ancient Greek: στέφανος, romanized: stéphanos, lit. 'wreath', 'crown'; Latin: corona, lit. 'wreath'...
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    Atticus. In antiquity, the theatre was used for the vocal and musical contests that formed part of the programme of the Pythian Games in the late Hellenistic...
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  • classical antiquity was lost as a consequence of the loss of books in late antiquity, which in the west was the period from the late third to late sixth century...
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    of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman...
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  • Late Antiquity is a historiographical term for the historical period from c. 200 AD to c. 700 AD, which marks the transition from Classical Antiquity...
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    of Western esotericism emerged in the Eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, where Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism developed as schools...
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    the 1st century BC and to nearly every subject of the Roman empire in late antiquity. At their peak, the Romans ruled large parts of Europe, the Near East...
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  • Late Antiquity (ODLA) is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary reference work covering culture, history, religion, and life in Late Antiquity....
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    ecumenical councils. Christianity was both defined and transformed in Late Antiquity in what is sometimes called the "golden age" of Patristic Christianity...
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    best-known surviving manuscripts of Virgil's works include manuscripts from late antiquity such as the Vergilius Augusteus, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius...
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    Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary[citation needed] Latin of late antiquity. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this...
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    Métraux (Eds.), The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity (pp. 141-156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10...
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    epochs, this crisis sometimes marks the transition from Classical to Late Antiquity. Aurelian (r. 270–275) stabilised the empire militarily and Diocletian...
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    period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with...
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    Carolingian and Ottonian dynasties, but the idea was common during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The phrases renovatio Romanorum ("renewal of the...
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    Herodotus's account and some other testimony from the Hellenistic Period and Late Antiquity suggest that ancient societies encouraged the practice of sacred sexual...
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    Peter Brown, whom The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity calls the "pioneer" who inspired the study of Late Antiquity as a field in itself, and whose work...
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    the foremost empires of late antiquity, the Kingdom of Aksum fell into obscurity as Ethiopia remained isolated throughout the Late Middle Ages. Carlo Conti...
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    represented a decisive break with antiquity. The more recent formulation of a historical period characterized as "Late Antiquity" emphasizes the transformations...
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    the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the conditions...
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    residences and imperial palaces and were known as "palace basilicas". In late antiquity, church buildings were typically constructed either as martyria, or...
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    actual triskeles symbol of three human legs is found especially in Greek antiquity, beginning in archaic pottery and continued in coinage of the classical...
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    period in the 6th and 7th centuries AD, during the period known as Late Antiquity. The period coincides with three large volcanic eruptions in 535/536...
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