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Late Antiquity en · PROPN

Etymology

A calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown with his influential 1971 book The World of Late Antiquity.

Meanings

1. The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
   • Unlike Jews and Manichaeans, who could be found in most parts of the Roman empire during Late Antiquity, Zoroastrians were a geographically and numerically restricted religious group, confined to certain eastern provinces, especially in Asia Minor. 2000, A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 169:
   • The production of coins for jewelry, on the other hand, was prosecuted as high treason or a crimen maiestatis: counterfeiting coin always constituted a major offense, and in Late Antiquity it became a sacrilege. 1993, Jutta-Annette Bruhn, Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, page 1:
   • Yuhanna b. Mansur b. Sargun (ca. 655–ca. 749 C.E.), better known as John of Damascus, lived through the cultural transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam and thus offers an important window into the practice of Late Antique Christian faith in a changing cultural milieu. 2000, David Vila, “38: Texts on Iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia”, in Richard Valantasis, editor, Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, Princeton University Press, page 454:

Forms

Relateds

Early Islam · late antique · Early Middle Ages

Translations (16)

hu késő antikvitás (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · ca Antiguitat tardana (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · sv senantik (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · br Henamzer diwezhañ (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · nl late oudheid (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · ro Antichitatea târzie (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · it Tarda antichità (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · fr Antiquité tardive (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · el Ύστερη Αρχαιότητα (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · ka გვიანი ანტიკური ხანა (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · cy Henfyd Diweddar (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · hu késő ókor (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · ru по́здняя анти́чность (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · es Antigüedad tardía (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · de Spätantike (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) · pt Antiguidade tardia (the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages)

wikipedia: Peter Brown (historian) · wikipedia: The World of Late Antiquity (1971)