Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Though I shifted over to American studies in grad school for practical reasons, my original love in the field of history was late antiquity and early medieval and I’ve maintained that interest ever since. As in all areas of the social sciences, things change, both in methodology and in academic tastes, and this field is no different. Bowersock and his colleagues have attempted to bring together in a single volume a number of tools and resources that will allow someone who has been out of touch for a couple decades to become quickly aware of the present questions and controversies among classicists and medievalists — and they’re about half successful.
