Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Preface

PART I
APPROACHES

Learning and Imagination
(Inaugural Lecture, Royal Holloway College, 1977)

Gibbon's Views on Culture and Society in the Fifth
and Sixth Centuries
(Daedalus CV [1976): 73-88; Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, 1977, pp. 37- 52)

In Gibbon's Shade
(New York Review of Books XXIII (1976]: 14-18)

Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne
(Daedalus CI11(1974]: 25-33)

PART II
SOCIETY AND THE HOLY

The Last Pagan Emperor:
Robert Browning's The Emperor Julian
(Times Literary Supplement, 8 April1977, pp. 425-26)

The Rise and Function of the Holy Man
in Late Antiquity
(Journal of Roman Studies LXI[I97I]: 80-101)

Town, Village and Holy Man: The Case of Syria
(Assimilation et resistance a Ia culture greco-romaine dans
le monde ancien, 1976, pp. 213-20)

Eastern and Western Christendom in Late Antiquity:
A Parting of the Ways
(The Orthodox Churches and the West, 1976, pp. 1-24)

The View from the Precipice
(New York Review of Books XXI[1974]: 3-5)

Artifices of Eternity
(written with Sabine MacCormack,
New York Review of Books XXII [1975]: 19-22)

Relics and Social Status
in the Age of Gregory of Tours
(The Stenton Lecture, 1976; University of Reading, 1977)