From the Editor

I am delighted to report that the response to the launching of the Journal of Late Antiquity has met with a most gratifying response. Whereas the publishers indicated they would be happy with a subscription list of 200 by the end of the year, by July we already were well over 200. So we encourage current subscribers and readers not only to continue to advocate for further personal subscriptions, but also, and in particular, to lobby their libraries to subscribe. How, indeed, can any respectable library not have on its shelves the only English language journal representing a 400-plus year period of history?

The second issue of JLA finds us, once again and rather contrary to our expectations, with something of a Constantine theme, incorporating not only a lengthy contribution dealing with Constantine’s use of the past and two additional contributions relating heavily to the Constantinian period, but also a trenchant review of a European Constantine exhibit. Other contributions, as is our custom, run the late antique gamut from the fourth to the seventh centuries, including discussions of political relations on the eastern frontier of the Roman world, a hitherto unknown Gothic civil war in Gaul, and Gregory the Great’s missions to Britain.

In conclusion, I would like to thank our contributors, and to encourage our readers to continue to submit their scholarship for publication. In addition, the journal’s sponsor, the Society for Late Antiquity, invites our readers to participate in our biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conferences, the next incarnation of which, “Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VIII: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity,” will be held April 2–5, 2008, at Indiana University ( http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/index.php ).