The Sicilian Jews in the Maritime Trade in the Second Half of the 15th Century by Giuseppe Campagna

“…Evidences of Jewish settlements in Sicily date back to the late antique period and this varied and industrious minority has been present, without interruption, until the last decade of the 15th century. …”
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Upadek patriarchy aleksandryjskiego Dioskura by Ireneusz Milewski

“… The overthrow of patriarch Dioscuros appertains to the breakthrough events, which influenced the doctrinal countenance of Late Antique Christianity. Despite the fact that the decision to deprive the patriarch of the throne remained solely political, the very depositional proceedings were commenced on the charge of wrongdoings committed by Dioscuros prior to and in the course of the second Ephesian Council. …”
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A decorated bronze censer from the Cathedral in Old Dongola by Maciej Wyżgoł

“…Seeking sources of inspiration for the Dongolan masters of the metal-working craft, the author looks to the Byzantine Empire, where close parallels for the decoration of the Nubian censer can be found in late antique silver objects. This leads to a discussion of trade relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Makuria, and the possible exchange of official gifts.…”
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Coins from the site of Marina el-Alamein: an overview of recent and some earlier finds by Barbara Lichocka

“…Hadrian bronzes, most numerous in this group, along with coins of Trajan and Antoninus Pius corroborate a peak in the development of the town in the 2nd century AD, while late Roman imperial specimens are direct evidence for its continued functioning in the late antique period.…”
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Sensing Sound: Aesthetic and Religious Experience According to al-Ghazālī by Ines Weinrich

“…This paper re-examines the text against the background of Arab musical theory of the time when it was written, and analyses selected technical terms that allude to concepts rooted in Late Antique musical philosophy and become also tangible in the Qurʾān. al-Ghazālī recognises both aesthetic pleasure and the transformative power of sounds and gives guidance how to channel the hearing perception into a salvific experience.…”
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La capitalización del culto de los santos y su trasfondo social: Braulio de Zaragoza by Santiago CASTELLANOS

“…It deals with studing the episcopal capitalization of the cult of the saints and its social background, in this case through the figure of Braulio of Saragossa and his Vita Sancti Aemiliani, in the setting for the global set of problems of Late Antique Hispania.…”
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The Vaccaei, the Vaceti, and the rise of Vasconia by Roger COLLINS

“…RESUMEN: Late Antique ethnography is generally more of a testimony to its authors' antiquarian learning than to the social realities of they age in which the lived. …”
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Old and New in Old and New Rome by Siri Sande

“…Various explanations have been offered: hostility from a largely pagan Senate, or fear that the pagan buildings might be inhabited by demons. However, the late antique fora built in Constantinople by Christian emperors, show the same pattern. …”
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From tusk to town by Coutu, A, Damgaard, K

“…In combining archaeological, visual, and biomolecular analyses on these ivories, fresh perspectives are provided that shed new light on the infrastructure and geographical scope of late antique and early medieval trade systems. Moreover, it informs us about the economic and commercial roles played by Red Sea ports in this period and highlights the potential of analyzing organic artifacts from sites in the region to reveal new details and characteristics of historical Indian Ocean trade networks. …”

Origen and the Platonic Tradition by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

“…As a consequence, and against scholarly perspectives that tend to see Christianity as anti-Platonism, the final section of this paper asks the question of what is imperial and late antique Platonism and, on the basis of rich evidence ,suggests that this was not only “pagan” institutional Platonism.…”
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Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka. Fieldwork in the 2019 season by Grzegorz Majcherek

“…Included in the presentation is a brief review of the limited conservation work that was conducted in the complex of late antique auditoria.…”
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'Laudantes Elegi:' Ovid’s Exile and the Metamorphoses of Praise, Friendship, and Love in Late Latin Poetry by Lorenzo Livorsi

“…Taking a cue from the re-use of love themes as praise motives enacted by Ovid in his exile elegies, this paper illustrates the reception of such imagery in late antique Latin poetry. Touchstones for this enquiry are mainly the verse panegyrics by Claudian and the elegiac short poems by Venantius Fortunatus, considered as two different realisations of a common langue of praise in two different cultural and socio-historical milieus. …”
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A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) by Popławski Szymon, Kraśniewska Urszula, Mi Filippo

“…The artefact was reused in a Late Antique installation just outside the courtyard wall of the main city sanctuary, the Isis Temple. …”
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Christian and Jewish Communities of Aquileia through the Works of Fortunatian and Chromace by Jan Dominik Bogataj, Miran Špelič

“…The article deals with the complex relations between the Jewish and Christian communities in the late antique Aquileia, one of the most important cities of the Roman empire at the time. …”

Vivere in campagna lungo la via Appia: l’organizzazione e lo sfruttamento della terra tra IV sec. a.C. e VI sec. d.C. ad Est di Benevento by Alfonso Santoriello, Cristiano Benedetto De Vita

“…Results have allowed to outline complex scenarios that respond to the transformations of the main centre, from the proto-urban Maluentum to the Latin colony, up to the developments of the Imperial and late antique period. Economic evolution and political choices define in the countryside both original systems of exploitation and new patterns organized on previous infrastructures, thus determining a ‘stratification’ of ancient landscapes still recognizable in the actual rural fabric.…”
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From ethico-religious exhortation to legal paraenesis: functions of Qur’anic Waʿẓ by Schmid, N

“…This essay examines qur’anic “exhortation” and “legal paraenesis” in light of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and late antique biblical traditions. It analyzes the verb waʿaẓa and related forms in narrative and legal/legislative sections of suras that can be assigned to different chronological stages of the Qur’an’s textual genesis. …”

The Arch of Constatine: Continuity and Commemoration through Reuse by Marina Prusac

“…The messages which can be discerned in the sculpture programme of the Arch of Constantine are here discussed, taking as a point of departure the collective memories of late-antique Rome. The direct involvement of Constantine in the erection of the Arch is sustained through a comparison with other examples of Constantinian public art, architecture, and topography in Rome. …”
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Blurred Boundaries and Novel Normativities by Michael E. Pregill

“…Hughes’s works present a critique of the established historiography on Jewish-Muslim relations and exchanges, examining such subjects as the Jews of late antique Arabia, the Jewish matrix of the Quran and formative Islam, and the Judeo-Islamic synthesis of subsequent centuries. …”
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Plato and ‘the Birdhunters’: The Controversial Legacy of an Elusive Swan by Anna Motta

“…Compared to modern interpretation of the Aristotelic testimony on the “so-called unwritten doctrines”, we can state that the late antique interpretations of them focus and depend on what Plato has left us in his written dialogues, which are the best living images of his oral dialogues. …”
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Key terms of the Qur'an: a critical dictionary by Sinai, N

“…While the dictionary is primarily engaged in ascertaining what the Qur’an would have meant to its original recipients in late antique Arabia, it makes selective and critical use of later Muslim scholarship alongside an extensive body of secondary research in English, German, and French from the nineteenth century to today.…”