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The Edited Collection and the Advancement of Late Antiquity 编辑收藏与古代晚期的进步

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.3.453

W. Mayer

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Entanglements of Religion and Empire 宗教与帝国的纠缠

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.3.287

Ra‘anan Boustan

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Justinian’s Frankish War, 552–ca. 560 查士丁尼的法兰克斯560

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.3.403

Sihong Lin

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An Earthquake for Pulcheria Pulcheria的地震

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.216

M. Doerfler

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Review: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock 评论：《黄金大篷车》、《时间的碎片：中世纪撒哈拉非洲的艺术、文化和交流》，Kathleen Bickford Berzock编辑

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.276

Brooks Hedstrom, L. Darlene

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Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus 环境变化，约翰的行为，和变化的宗教景观在古代晚期以弗所

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.176

Travis W. Proctor

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The Battle of Yarmouk, a Bridge of Boats, and Heraclius’s Alleged Fear of Water 耶尔穆克战役，一座船桥，以及希拉克略所谓的怕水

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.241

Nadine Viermann

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Review: Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History, by James Corke-Webster 评:《优西比乌斯与帝国:教会史上的教会与罗马的建构》，詹姆斯·科克-韦伯斯特著

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.272

M. Delcogliano

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Dealing with Disaster 应对灾难

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.173

E. Digeser

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Review: The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America, by Elizabeth A. Clark 《教父重建:新教自由主义、罗马天主教现代主义和20世纪早期美国古代基督教的教学》，作者:伊丽莎白·a·克拉克

Studies in Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/sla.2021.5.2.267

F. M. Gillman

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