Ancient metallurgical traditions and connections around the caput Adriae by Giumlia-Mair A.

“…The pieces, made of different metals, are dated to various periods, between the Late Bronze Age and Late Antiquity. The results of different kinds of analytical techniques, applied to several hundreds of archaeological metal artefacts from this area, are presented and evaluated in the paper. …”
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Un ensemble funéraire de l’Antiquité tardive à dépôt atypique d’âne à Woippy (Moselle) by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Olivier Putelat

“…The Woippy site is therefore an example of a small-scale rural burial site from Late Antiquity. In terms of the chronological attribution and duration of its occupation, this ensemble is very similar to the regional site of Uckange. …”
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L’agglomération de Chilleurs-aux-Bois (Loiret) durant l’Antiquité tardive by Laurent Fournier, Thomas Guillemard

“…Late Antiquity is one of the periods which are best represented on each of these operations thanks to which the occupation of this small town between the second half of the 3rd c. and the beginning of the 6th c. …”
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Le castrum de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge de Mandeure et l’établissement fortifié de hauteur de Château-Julien (Doubs) by David Billoin, Cédric Cramatte

“…They allowed to reconsider the town evolution between the Late Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages but above all to understand the extent of changes that the town goes through during the Late Antiquity; the construction of a castrum and of an Early Christian basilica on the spot of a military camp built in the mid-4th c. …”
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Consuetudo Legis: Writing Down Customs in the Roman Empire (2nd–5th Century CE) by Soazick Kerneis

“…My paper will promote the view of legal anthropology to understand the role of the custom in Late Antiquity. I focus on the fact that custom can be understood as a privilege (privata lex), especially in the case of the first national laws given to barbarian tribes established in the Late Roman Empire. …”
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Agglomérations, vici et castra du Nord de la Gaule (iiie-vie s. apr. J.-C.) : esquisse d’un bilan by Michel Kasprzyk, Martial Monteil

“…This introduction sums up the main results of a series of analyses which describe a state of the urban frame evolution of a part of Northern Gaul and Germania during the Late Antiquity. Based on regional approaches and case studies, this issue allows to measure the varied rhythms of the towns – mainly small towns – evolution, and to examine the changes, which occur in the fields of public equipments, shapes of housing or economic activities. …”
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L’agglomération de Melun (Seine-et-Marne) durant l’Antiquité tardive : de Metlosedum à Meteglo by Claire Besson, Diane Laneluc, Olivier Puaux

“…The Late antique occupation of Melun is characterised by the presence of a fortified nucleus on the Île Saint-Étienne, located between two arms of the Seine. …”
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Les agglomérations de la province de Lyonnaise Troisième (Bretagne et Pays de la Loire) : entre abandon, perduration et nouvelles créations (iiie-vie s. apr. J.-C.) by Martial Monteil

“…The question of the future of the urban network during Late Antiquity is discussed here, identifying the gaps regarding the documentation. …”
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Le retour du gnosticisme by E. Kayayan

“… Gnosticism, the last religion to have arisen during Western Antiquity, has its roots both in Greek thought and in late Judaism. …”
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Christian prisoners: fifth and sixth century inscriptions from Corinth by C. Breytenbach

“…They shed interesting light on the hopes, beliefs and opinions of Christians from late antiquity. This study offers an overview of the insights to be gained from these graffiti. …”
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L’universalité de la sylloge épigraphique de Gaetano Marini (1742-1815) : le statut philologique des monogrammes du premier millénaire chrétien by Isabelle Mathian

“…In this article, the case of Christian monograms allows us to add a new aspect to his contribution to the knowledge to the imagery of Late Antiquity. Although they were unpublished, the four volumes of his Inscriptiones christianae latinæ et graecæ aevi milliarii see through the prism of epigraphy the nuances of a typological method whose innovations should be appreciated vis à vis a then emerging field of studies.…”
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Stations routières en Gaule romaine : architecture, équipements et fonctions by Fabien Colleoni

“…The subject, which is of interest to both political and economic history, warrants a new perspective in the light of recent archaeological data emerging for the period from the end of the Republican era to late Antiquity. On the basis of architectural models that could be considered as resulting from specific Roman policies, the contributions brought together in this collection are primarily concerned with providing a detailed analysis of the architecture of these roadside establishments, and the facilities they encompassed. …”
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Le mausolée de la villa d’Ussol à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Philippe Mellinand, Elsa Sagetat-Basseuil

“…The mausoleum excavated at the Ussol ZAC (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône) presents distinctive features that make it all the more interesting: funerary chamber in a large structure, dating going back to the Late Roman Empire, located just beside a villa... …”
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The Stoic Tradition by John Sellars

“…The Neoplatonic practice of writing commentaries on the works of both Plato and Aristotle in late antiquity was central, laying the foundations for the subsequent philosophical traditions in Greek, Arabic, and Latin during the Middle Ages. …”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…This search for identities is moreover often distorted or led astray by the Western vision of researchers who, influenced by Christian art of the medieval period, regularly attribute a Christian saintly dimension to any figure with a nimbus around his or her head. But during Late Antiquity, the nimbus was first and foremost an attribute of Roman and pagan origin, destined to highlight all sorts of illustrious figures, whether historical or mythological, such as emperors, heroes and allegories. …”
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Entre Narbonnaise et Italie : le territoire de la province des Alpes Maritimae pendant l’Antiquité romaine (ier s. av. J.-C. - ve s. apr. J.-C.) by Stéphane Morabito

“…The territorial expansion continued during the 2nd century AD with the integration of four new civitates: Dinia/Digne, Caturigomagus/Chorges, Eburodunum/Embrun and Rigomagus/Faucon-de-Barcelonnette. During Late Antiquity, the province will go through an internal reorganization. …”
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Schemata Isagogica. Osservazioni sui prologhi di alcuni commenti logici del XII secolo a Isagoge e Categorie by Pietro Podolak

“…The literary culture of late antiquity established a list of questions to be answered before studying an author or a text. …”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…Seemingly confirming this assessment, the Sienese Church possessed no hagiographic tradition of early bishops that would prove that their urban settlement was a true <i>civitas</i> in late antiquity. As part of their effort to verify that their city had not only Roman but also early Christian origins, the Sienese, primarily spearheaded by lay officials, refashioned the image of their martyr-saint, Ansanus (d. 296). …”
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Les bandages herniaires modernes : apports d’un nouvel exemple provenant du cimetière paroissial de Gradignan (Gironde) by Camille Bouffiès, Hélène Réveillas, Alejandra Balboa-Pont

“…However, historical, iconographical and archaeological sources show that from Antiquity until the 17th century, hernias were treated by the use of trusses to keep the protruding tissue in place, although this was often ineffective, or by empirical surgery that generally led to the death of the subject. …”
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From utility to imperial propaganda: (Re)discovering a milestone of Constantine I from the vicinity of Bona Mansio and emporion Pistiros and its significance for the study of the ‘... by Emil Nankov

“…A new look at the milestone’s findspot, date, historical context and relation to other milestones found in the region is necessary because its place of discovery puts the actual route of the ‘Via Diagonalis’ in close proximity to the fortified settlement at Gradishteto near Asardere, situated ca. 2 km west of “Kaldarmata” and ca. 5 km east of the town of Vetren, commonly identified with Bona Mansio, which was the last road station in the territory of Philippopolis during Late Antiquity. The diachronic analysis of other milestones found in the region allows us to capture the milestone’s evolving function as a medium of communication between the imperial administration and its subjects within the 3rd and the 4th centuries AD; from a road accessory providing practical information to travellers into an administrative tool displaying imperial propaganda. …”
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