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Journal of Late Antiquity (JLA) is the award-winning first international English-language journal dedicated to the study of Late Antiquity writ large. The Journal provides a venue for multi-disciplinary coverage of all the methodological, geographical, and chronological facets of Late Antiquity. All of Late Antiquity will be represented -- from the late and post-classical world up to the Carolingian period, and including the late Roman, western European, Byzantine, Sassanid, and Islamic worlds, ca. 250-800 CE. JLA is essential, not only as a space for scholarship dealing with practical and theoretical issues, but, in particular, to bridge the gap between literary and material culture scholarship. One of the primary goals of the journal is to highlight the status of Late Antiquity as a discrete historical period in its own right. JLA honors include the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence as Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities for 2010, and Honorable Mention/Runner-Up for Best New Journal in 2009 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. JLA also is a two-time winner (2013 and 2019) of the Codex Award, given once per year by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in recognition of the best journal on any subject before 1500.
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Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2015Editorial Board
Managing Editor
Noel Lenski, Yale University
Editor Emeritus
Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
Associate Editors
Scott Bradbury, Smith College
Andrew Cain, University of Colorado at Boulder
Judith Evans-Grubbs, Emory University
Book Review Editors
Michael Kulikowski, Pennsylvania State University
Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas
Dennis Trout, University of Missouri–Columbia
Advisory Board
Roger Bagnall, Columbia University
Glen Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Evangelos Chrysos, University of Thessalonica, Greece
John Contreni, Purdue University
Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, University of Ottawa
Luis Garcia Moreno, University of Alcala de Henares, Spain
Jill Harries, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Arnaldo Marcone, University of Udine, Italy
James J. O'Donnell, Georgetown University
Walter Pohl, University of Vienna, Austria
Philip Rousseau, Catholic University of America
Danuta Shanzer, University of Vienna, Austria
Consulting Editors
Antti Arjava, University of Helsinki, Finland
Beatrice Caseau, University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), France
Gillian Clark, Bristol University, England
Simon Corcoran, University College London, England
Hal Drake, University of California–Santa Barbara
Jan Willem Drijvers, University of Groningen
Carolyn Humfress, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
David Hunter, University of Kentucky
Luke Lavan, University of Kent, England
Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University
Sigrid Mratschek, University of Rostock, Germany
Andreas Schwarcz, University of Vienna, Austria
Zeev Weiss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
David Wright, University of California–Berkeley
Bailey Young, Eastern Illinois University