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{"title":"The Formation of Christendom, 2nd ed. by Judith Herrin (review)","authors":"Sam Ottewill-Soulsby","doi":"10.1353/jla.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"of the Columbian exchange, which Diamond and his predecessors, historians of disease Alfred Crosby and William McNeil, mark as a global biological turning point. Harper interjects, making notable revisions to past immunological conclusions using our present understanding of genetics and immunity. An account of the Mayflower begins chapter 8, an introductory backdrop to New World colonization, the ensuing African slave trade, and their facilitation of pathogen transmission both old and new(er) to Atlantic shores—for example, viruses causing malaria (old), yellow fever (newer), and smallpox (older). Part Three ends back in Europe, centered on grisly accounts of the rise of typhus (caused by the parasite Rickettsia prowazekii) and the destructive re-emergence of smallpox (perhaps a more virulent strain of the virus) that spanned Eurasia. Our species begins its early-modern break from low life expectancy in the fourth and final part of Plagues, as Harper employs his skills as an economic historian in analyzing a most crucial subject: the relationship between wealth and health. Expounding and expanding on “The Great Escape”—a term coin by economist Agnus Deaton (The Great Escape, Princeton, 2013), branding our separation from high mortality—Harper adds useful analysis, highlighting the advantages of technological and institutional progress, especially in science and medicine, on human longevity (at least, in those fortunate places). The reader of this review might be thinking, this is rather obvious; or, how original is this evaluation? Connecting advancements in science and institutions with better health is not original. It is the way in which Harper merges his expertise in both economic history and the history of disease, along with a proficient grasp of the new science recounted, which lead to novel epidemiological insights. Plagues upon the Earth has its faults; for instance, Harper’s penchant for attention-grabbing superlatives: for example, “. . . the most deadly . . . ,” “. . . humanity’s worst enemies . . . ,” and “. . . the deadliest and most dreaded . . .”—is on full display, not unlike those in the Fate of Rome. But here superlatives seem admissible. Today, this topic needs all the attention it can get, and Harper’s treatment of it should not be missed.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":"240 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42643128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity by Jennifer Barry (review)","authors":"D. Rohmann","doi":"10.1353/jla.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":"245 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44056767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper (review)","authors":"Brandon T. McDonald","doi":"10.1353/jla.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":"238 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43140605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Figureless Art: Anti-Figural Trends in Jewish Art During the Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods by Noa Yuval-Hacham (review)","authors":"Oz Avraham Tamir","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"555 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42284502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Companion to Julian the Apostate ed. by Stefan Rebenich and Hans-Ulrich Wiemer (review)","authors":"Andrea Murace","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"543 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42452050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention by Santiago Castellanos (review)","authors":"A. Kurt","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"553 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45303504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium by Daniel Caner (review)","authors":"B. Neil","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"547 - 548"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44284957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Procopius and the Lord of the Demons: The Synthesis of the Demonic Justinian","authors":"Ryan Denson","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the sections of the sixth-century Secret History of Procopius of Caesarea where the emperor Justinian, and occasionally his wife, Theodora, were portrayed as demons, further giving special consideration to the three instances where Justinian was referred to specifically as the \"Lord of the Demons\" (ἄρχων τῶν δαιμόνων). I argue that Procopius's depiction of the demonic Justinian was fundamentally the result of a synthesis of contemporary rumors and apocalyptic thought, imbued with a literary flourish, while the term \"Lord of the Demons\" also had a more distinct resonance in the Secret History and in the roughly contemporary commentary by Oecumenius on Revelation, wherein it is used by both authors to refer to an Antichrist-like figure in a position of political power. The demonic Justinian was, then, a figure befitting of a political invective, yet rather than being a simple caricature premised solely on inversions of the emperor, it was the manifestation of a complex confluence of political discontent, as well as aspects of Christian demonology and eschatology.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"494 - 518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48660065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fisco, annona, mercato. Studi sul Tardo Impero Romano by Domenico Vera (review)","authors":"P. Tedesco","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":" 10","pages":"549 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41252885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where Are the Names of the Iovii and Herculii? Exploring Christian Responses to Tetrarchic Material Culture","authors":"Rebecca Usherwood","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the relationship between traditional and Christian concepts of imperial failure and disgrace. Using the writings of Eusebius and Lactantius as a springboard, I discuss the significance of the idea that emperors suffered body, image, and name destruction as a consequence of persecuting the Christians. This is then related to a body of epigraphic evidence in North Africa from the time of the first tetrarchy, where numerous examples of the erasure of imperial names have led to suggestions that these are the result of \"Christians\" targeting their persecutors. This essay evaluates the likelihood of this and considers it in relation to the ways in which the memory of the Great Persecution was cultivated in this region. Through a close analysis of the context of some of these erasures, I argue that they should not be seen as random acts of religious extremism but as part of the careful management of urban spaces by municipal elites in this period. The ambiguity of these modifications left it unclear whether the stigmatization of imperial names was due to the political or religious failure of these emperors, thus merging the two meanings. This was advantageous, since the traditional practice of name-erasure could be interpreted in different ways depending on the values of the viewer and thus represented common ground between different groups.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"402 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47584444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}