The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity contains over 5,000 authoritative entries covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD.

• Preliminary matter


• Dedication


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Contents


• List of Area Advisors/Area Editors


• List of Contributors


• List of Contributor Initials


• General Abbreviations


• Bibliographic Abbreviations


• Note to the Reader


• A-Z main text


• Endmatter


• Late Antique Rulers


• Principal Roman Emperors and Usurpers


• Barbarian Kings


• Shahanshahs of the Sasanian Dynasty


• Rightly-Guided and 'Umayyad Caliphs


• Occupants of the Five Great Patriarchal Sees


• See of Alexandria


• See of Antioch


• See of Constantinople


• See of Jerusalem


• See of Rome

Oliver Nicholson was an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota and taught courses on post-classical Latin authors as well as a sequence of undergraduate courses on the Age of Constantine the Great, of Saint Augustine of Hippo, and of Justinian and Muhammad, for which he has won a few teaching awards. From 1995--2000 he was the Director of the Center for Mediaeval Studies. He has published widely, especially on Lactantius and the Age of Constantine the Great.