6200 years of human activities and environmental change in the northern central Alps by C. von Scheffer, C. von Scheffer, A. Lange, F. De Vleeschouwer, F. De Vleeschouwer, J. Schrautzer, I. Unkel

“…After 200 cal CE, a rising human impact was interrupted by climatic deteriorations in the first half of the 6th century CE, probably linked to the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The use of the characteristic Pb EF pattern of modern pollution as a time marker allows us to draw conclusions about the last centuries. …”
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Archaeological explorations at ‘En Qobi in the Jerusalem Highlands and the identification of Qube/Qubi by Boaz Zissu

“…‘En Qobi has been identified as Qobi, a location near Bethar mentioned in a story in the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 95a) and in additional Roman-period, late antique and medieval sources. The article describes the sites and discusses their historical-geographical significance and identification.…”
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Misja i monastycyzm manichejski w dolinie Nilu i jego wpływ na tamtejsze chrześcijaństwo na przełomie III/IV wieku by Piotr O. Scholz

“…Manichaeism belongs unequivocally to the “periphery cultures of the Chris­tian world” (Pogranicza chrześcijaństwa) as well as constituting a part of ex­panding Christianity in the Late Antique world. Manichaeism still holds many secrets, but at the same time their answers, as illustrated by this article. …”
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Inimica amicitia: friendship and the notion of exclusion in early Christian Latin literature by Brändli, A

“…Typically, scholars confine their reading of Christian friendship to the late antique period. In so doing, they approach amicitia either as a particular kind of relationship performing crucial social functions or as a subject for theorization that followed the example of a longstanding ancient philosophical tradition. …”

Uomo, analogia di Dio: dialettica universale e creazione in Giovanni Scoto Eriugena by Alessandro Valsecchi

“…The study of the analogical relationships that constantly arise in these three universal stages allows us to show the originality of Eriugenian philosophy and its ability to rework philosophical concepts from the late antique tradition in a novel way. …”
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Koraközépkori hagiográfia és a kopt irodalom. Egy kopt osztrakon szövegének irodalomtörténeti elemzése by Tóth, P

“…<br> The examination of this text tries to point out the role of national literary traditions in Late Antique Mediterranean forming the literary character of such a significant theologian in the life of the local church. …”

The searched-for thing: a literary approach to four early alchemical texts by Lopes da Silveira, F

“…The third chapter investigates how Zosimus’ On the Letter Omega tries to harmonise various doctrines explicitly attributed to different cultural backgrounds, revealing the highly eclectic milieu of late antique Egypt already suggested by the works analysed in the first two chapters. …”

The textile industry in Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt: continuity and change by Georgala, I

“…The textiles of the Benaki Museum in Athens, which have been very little studied until now, form the core of this study, and are here related to the broader context of already published Late Antique and Early Islamic Egyptian textiles, both those collected and those scientifically excavated, in order to provide a solid basis for investigation, as representative as possible of the textile production in the transitional period.…”

Problems in the study of the medieval heritage in the Lim valley by Popović Marko

“…With this dating as his starting-point, the author examines the fieldwork results and suggests that the block is an early-Byzantine spolium probably from the late-antique site of Kolovrat near Prijepolje, reused in the medieval period as a tombstone in the churchyard, where such examples are not lonely. …”
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Enhanced continental weathering ($\delta ^{7}$Li, $\varepsilon $Nd) during the rise of East African complex polities: an early large-scale anthropogenic forcing? by Mologni, Carlo, Revel, Marie, Bastian, Luc, Bayon, Germain, Bosch, Delphine, Khalidi, Lamya, Vigier, Nathalie

“…Here, we explore the impact of human activities on both erosion and chemical weathering patterns in the Nile basin during a time interval that includes the rise of the Aksumite Kingdom and Late Antique Egypt (${\sim }$3–${\sim }$1 ka BP). By coupling lithium and neodymium isotopes ($\delta ^7\mathrm{Li}$, $\varepsilon \mathrm{Nd}$) in clay-size fractions of two marine sediment cores from the Nile Deep Sea Fan (NDSF), we reconstruct the variability of sediment provenance and silicate weathering intensity in the Nile basin over the last 9000 years. …”
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Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes by Saskia Pfrengle, Judith Neukamm, Meriam Guellil, Marcel Keller, Martyna Molak, Charlotte Avanzi, Alena Kushniarevich, Núria Montes, Gunnar U. Neumann, Ella Reiter, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Nataliya Y. Berezina, Alexandra P. Buzhilova, Dmitry S. Korobov, Stian Suppersberger Hamre, Vitor M. J. Matos, Maria T. Ferreira, Laura González-Garrido, Sofia N. Wasterlain, Célia Lopes, Ana Luisa Santos, Nathalie Antunes-Ferreira, Vitória Duarte, Ana Maria Silva, Linda Melo, Natasa Sarkic, Lehti Saag, Kristiina Tambets, Philippe Busso, Stewart T. Cole, Alexei Avlasovich, Charlotte A. Roberts, Alison Sheridan, Craig Cessford, John Robb, Johannes Krause, Christiana L. Scheib, Sarah A. Inskip, Verena J. Schuenemann

“…The higher resolution of our phylogeny tree also refined our understanding of the interspecies transfer between red squirrels and humans pointing to a late antique/early medieval transmission. Furthermore, with our new estimates on the past population diversity of M. leprae, we gained first insights into the disease’s global history in relation to major historic events such as the Roman expansion or the beginning of the regular transatlantic long distance trade. …”
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De Sint-Servaaskerk te Maastricht in de vroege middeleeuwen by Titus A.S.M. Panhuysen

“…Below the north-west part of the confessie (11th century) an almost square building or tomb house has been excavated, situated on the southern border of a late-antique cemetery. These remainings have been identified with the original building over the grave of St. …”
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PREFACE by Oleh Pylypchuk, Oleh Strelko, Yulia Berdnychenko

“…The analysis of the results of researches in the field of late antique archeology of the Crimea, published on the pages of “Readings of the Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler”, is discussed in the next article. …”
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The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunni Scholasticism: ‘Abdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century by Suheil Laher

“…In Chapter 3, Salem argues that although the concept of martial valor as a form of piety was well known in the Late Antique Near East, it is a mistake to assume that post-expansion Muslims simply adopted it from the Christians they came in contact with. …”
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