Arethusa 33.3: Elites in Late Antiquity (September, 2000)
Guest Editors: Michele Salzman and Claudia Rapp

Arethusa’s first issue devoted entirely to Late Antiquity, Elites in Late Antiquity includes articles on various aspects of the study of elite culture in both the Latin West and the Byzantine East. It considers the formation, social mobility, hierarchies, and social functions of elites from various viewpoints, including social, ecclesiastical spiritual, and political, with essays by many of the leading historians of Late Antiquity. 

Contents: 

I. Michele Salzman and Claudia Rapp - Introduction
II. Peter Brown - The Study of Elites in Late Antiquity
III.. Dan Caner - Social Mobility and Elitist Response in Early Fifth-Century Monastic Treatises
IV. Susanna Elm - A Programmatic Life: Gregory of Nazianzus' Orations 42 and 43 and the Constantinopolitan    Elites 
V. John Matthews - The Roman Empire and the Proliferation of Elites
VI. Claudia Rapp - The Elite Status of Bishops in Late Antiquity in the Ecclesiastical, Spiritual, and Social Contexts
VII. Michele Salzman - Elite Realities and Mentalities: The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
VIII. Alexander Skinner - The Birth of a 'Byzantine' Senatorial Perspective

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