Interesting Perspectives

Find below is the link to a very good article by Philip Rousseau. Late Antiquity has existed in various forms (spätantike, le Bas-Empire, the Later Empire), but only since Peter Brown's The World of Late Antiquity, published in 1971, has Late Antiquity been an actual historical period.  Is it time for scholars to redefine our analytical lens?

At stakes, however, is the wider issue of periodization. Do periods still have epistemological value?

http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/can-late-antiquity-be-saved-by-philip-rousseau/