The inaugural issue of Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal is now available for free online! You will find:

Editorial Essays

·         “Why Does the World Need a New Journal on Late Antiquity?” by the Editor and Associate Editors

·         “Community Matters” by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (Editor)

Articles

·         “Late Antiquity and World History: Challenging Conventional Narratives and Analyses” by Mark Humphries

·         “How Perilous was it to Write Political History in Late Antiquity?” by Anthony Kaldellis

·         “From a Classical to a Christian City: Civic Evergetism and Charity in Fifth Century Rome” by Michele Salzman

Book Reviews

·         Digital_Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp

o   Review by Sarah Bond and Thomas Keegan

·         Décadence: “Decline and Fall” of “Other Antiquity”? edited by Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, and Anna-Lena Stock

o   Review by Lorenzo DiTommaso

·         A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity by Richard E. Payne

o   Review by Greg Fisher

·         From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper

o   Review by Wendy Mayer

·         The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge by Diana K. Davis

o   Review by Steven E. Sidebotham