In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unpar
Published to honor Peter Brown, who almost single-handedly established Late Antiquity as its own, vibrant field of study, this volume contains 17 essays that address how society adapted to the enormou
The two centuries between a.d. 250 and a.d. 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This book focuses on the transition from ancien
