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Late antiquity

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Etymology

A calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown with his influential 1971 book The World of Late Antiquity.

  1. calqued from Spätantike

Definitions

  1. Misspelling of Late Antiquity.

  2. The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries…

    The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.

    • The production of coins for jewelry, on the other hand, was prosecuted as high treason or a crimen maiestatis: counterfeiting coin always constituted a major offense, and in Late Antiquity it became a sacrilege.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of Late Antiquity.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA