SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference Guidelines

As stated in Section 4 of the SLA "Guidelines and Policies" approved at SF II, 13 March 1997, organizers of the biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conferences "are encouraged as much as possible to adhere to the following confer�ence traditions:

1. Each conference should be organized around a unifying theme.

2. All sessions should be plenary in order to encourage coherence, uniformity, and interaction among participants representing different disciplines and methodologies.

3. Ample opportunity for discussion and dialogue should be provided.

4. Finances permitting, presenters should be provided with a token travel subsidy, usually in the form of a rebate of the registration fee so as to facilitate bookkeeping.

More specifically, past experience suggests that local organizers might benefit from the following guidelines:

Call for Papers

a. The initial Call for Papers should be circulated well in advance of the conference, the preceding spring being a good time. A follow-up call can be circulated the September preceding the conference, with a deadline for receipt of abstracts on November 1.

b. Some past conferences have functioned very successfully sending out calls for papers and conference announcements purely electronically. There are about 30 relevant discussion lists that can be used to circulate calls for papers and registration information. Several of our conferences also have done mail-outs of calls for papers.

c. Post announcements to both print and electronic conference announcement venues, including the Newsletters of the APA, APA, and Medieval Academy. Also the H-Net conference list.

d. Along with specifying the conference topic and giving examples of kinds of proposals that would be welcome, the Call for Papers should specify that papers are to present original scholarship that is substantially different from papers that have been presented previously (you'd be surprised how many recycled papers one gets submitted), and that they should clearly state the phenomenon or problem they propose to discuss and to summarize what makes their presentation "new." Past experience also suggests that it is necessary to specify that proposals need to focus specifically on Late Antiquity!

e. The Local Organizers need to select a Program Committee, which will vet the abstracts, and also serve as a preliminary publication committee for the conference volume.

f. Get a website up announcing the conference with a call for papers as soon as possible. More and more people find out about the conference just by chancing on the website, and there are lots of "Conference websites" that will repeat our call for papers if they can find it.

g. We customarily have plenary lectures Thursday and Friday evening given by respected names in the field on topics consistent with the conference theme.

Local Arrangements Logistics

a. The conference meets on a university campus (or campuses in the case of joint sponsorship) (*not* in a hotel) during spring break of the host institution (usually in the 3rd or 4th week of March or early April) in odd numbered years. Meeting during an institution�s spring break, which will overlap with spring breaks at many other U.S. institutions as well as with breaks at some European institutions, makes it much easier (1) to schedule rooms for the conference, (2) for participants to find parking, and (3) for participants to get time away from their home institutions.�

b. Locate the conference housing as close as possible to the confer�ence meeting sites, i.e. if at all possible within walking distance, so as to minimize aggravations caused by participants being "stranded" at venues inconveniently distant from their lodgings.

c. Inform participants prior to their arrival regarding any transpor�tation arrangements, such as shuttles to/from the airport, transporta�tion to off-site events, and so on. Provide a detailed summary of how to find transportation from a airport or train station. This will permit participants to know where they are expected to be at what particular times, and will allow them to schedule time to take care of personal needs on days that may extend from 7:30 AM until 9:30 PM.

d. SF conferences have morning and afternoon coffee breaks of app. 1/2 hour to give participants an additional opportunity to mingle and interact.

e. Traditionally, there are heavy refreshments during the coffee breaks (e.g. bagels, doughnuts, muffins) and continental breakfasts prior to the first session on each day (fruit, bagels, doughnuts, muffins, orange juice). The breakfasts encourage people to get to the conference site on time in the morning, and provide additional opportunity to meet and initiate dialogues. A continental breakfast is especially desirable on Sunday morning, when many participants will already have checked out of hotels and not know where their next meal is coming from.

f. Traditionally, lunches are provided on-site (this can be buffet style, sit-down, or sandwich boxes). This encourages participants to meet and discuss.

g. The banquet (either sit down of buffet style) is included in (and factored into) the cost of the registration fee. This, again, encourages participants to meet and discuss. It also lessens accounting headaches for the local organiz�ers. If there is to be a banquet speaker (and this is by no means mandatory or even desirable), it is crucial that a speaker with appropriate presence and topic -- something light-hearted -- for this kind of occasion be chosen. Nothing deadens a good banquet more than a bad banquet speaker going on too long (banquet speeches should not be over 15 minutes)! If the banquet venue has a good hardwood floor, a banquet dance has been very popular in the past. And be prepared for an actio gratiarum at the banquet :)

Program Considerations and Session Management

a. To expand upon guidelines 2-3 above, it has been traditional to have MAXIMUM 20-minute papers with 8 minutes of scheduled discussion after each paper. This results in the following suggested allocations of time per session (with an additional 10-15 minutes of wiggle room and Chair's comments):

3-paper sessions: 90 minutes

4-paper sessions: 120 minutes

5-paper sessions: 150 minutes

Sample schedule with 20-minute papers:

Of course, this is just one possible template. A 9 AM starting time would reduce the number of papers to 43. To include additional papers, one *could* go to a 15-minute paper length (which would be preferable to parallel sessions).

b. It also is traditional to have no concurrent sessions, as this only encourages the ghettoization of disciplines and inhibits interaction among participants from different fields. Past experiments with parallel sessions have invariably created (1) unavoidable overlaps where papers of great interest to many people are placed opposite each other, and (2) disappointment among presenters whose papers are stuck into the �parallel session ghetto.� Creative scheduling permits as many as 50 papers to be included using the plenary session format.

c. Time limits always have been rigidly enforced. Presenters need to be advised to read their papers ahead of time to be sure they are within the time limits. Chairs are instruct�ed to cut off presenters ruthlessly at the 20-minute mark.

d. Presenters who are using A/V should be asked to do their set-up ahead of time. Anyone using powerpoint needs to be sure that their program is loaded into whatever computer is being used (or that their own computer is connected to the projection equipment and functioning) BEFORE their session begins. There is no time to stop in mid-session to deal with technical glitches, which will certainly occur if prior setup is not done. Likewise, those using slides need to mount their slides and run through them before there session starts.

e. Our advice to Shifting Frontiers participants is, "if you come to SF, we own you while you're here!"� The typical Shifting Frontiers day runs from 8:00 AM (or before), with a continental breakfast, to 8:00 PM or later.

f. Time should be allocated, customarily at the end of the last session during the Farewell Brunch, for a Business Meeting meeting of the SLA, to discuss future meeting sites, hear officers' reports, and elect board members.

g. This is crucial. Presenters need to be advised at the time they submit an abstract that they need to provide the organizers with at least a draft copy of their presentation at least a week in advance of the conference. This policy was followed for the first three confer�ences, with the result that all of the presenters had at least a prepared text to present. It was not followed during the fourth, and the result was an inordinately large number of unprepared presenters, some who simply had not finished their papers, some reading from typescripts clearly written "on the plane", some simply "winging it", and some who had no idea how long their papers were. These presenta�tions almost always left something to be desired. Our policy of requiring advance copies (ostensibly for use of session chairs) at least ensures that a presenter will have a text that he/she has put some time into!

Budgeting Advice

1. Campus funding bodies (Deans' Offices, etc.) like to see a draft budget before they contribute. This means including your expected income. In the past, registration fees (including all the goodies mentioned above) have run around $100.

2. Attendance at recent meetings has hovered at just above 100 TOTAL attendees. This includes local people, student assistants, chairs, everybody. The number of presenters and paid registrants has been about 65.� This number can help future organizers create some ballpark expense estimates.

3. If the presenters' registration fees are counted as income, total registration income, based on a $100 registration fee, will be about $6000. If the presenters are also given a $100 "travel subsidy", this will appear as about a $3500 debit. The easiest way to pay the travel subsidy is just to waive the registration fee for the presenters.

4. Past conferences have raised about $6,000 of local money to help fund the conference (some have raised a lot more). A sample budget is below. These numbers are of course only guidelines.

5. A good approach can be to hit the higher administrative levels first, e.g. Provost or Dean, who ought to be able to produce several thousand dollars so long as you make a good case (they�ll want to know that they�re supporting a good cause that will bring the institution visibility), including:

(1) This is the premier conference for the study of Late Antiquity in the world, no question about it;

(2) The organizational sponsorship by the Society for Late Antiquity (bring along a copy of the journal to establish that we�re the real deal);

(3) The long track record of the conference: 10 held so far over 20 years;

(4) This is a truly international conference with refereed abstracts (not just some local people inviting their local buddies)

(5) The long track record of the publication of a scholarly volume of the *best* papers from the conference, which means that we set the agenda for future scholarly directions;

6. Advance funding raised from the Provost and/or Dean then can be leveraged to raise additional funding, e.g. (1) joint sponsorships from departments and programs: $100 here and there can add up, (2) some universities have funding competitions that can be used for conference support -- be sure not to miss any deadlines for submissions here, (3) even community groups have provided funding support for past conferences.

5. Beware of using Campus Conference Organizing facilities, as (1) they have to support themselves, and they will eat up as much of the money you raise as they can: a conference organized by a Conference Office will typically cost at least twice as much than one organized by faculty; (2) given that they have no stake in keeping costs down, they will make little effort to find the most cost-effective resources, and (3) turning local organizing over to a Conference Organizing Office greatly increases the possibility of screw-ups: no one will be as conscious of the conference�s needs than you are! By handling local arrangements oneself, it is much easier to get the kinds of facilities and catering that suit your needs and budget.

6. It�s not to soon to start reserving prima campus venues for the conference. Often a student union will have marquee conference rooms for special occasions, or the art department, library, or museum might have a dynamite auditorium, but these venues can go fast. This to avoid having the conference in some tacky classrooms (yes, this has happened in the past when organizers didn�t have sufficient foresight);

7. What often has worked in the past is to hire one or more student workers to deal with such things as updating the registration lists, making name tags and such, overseeing a check-in and information desk during the conference, and ferrying participants to and from the airport or other transportation centers.

Conference Volume

The pi�ce de r�sistance of the conference is the publication of selected conference papers as a stand-alone volume on the conference theme. The past eight conferences have resulted in nine volumes, and the knowledge that the papers will be published is one of the things that attracts the best possible presenters to the conference. Usually the referees for the contributions are based on the members of the program committee. The house publisher, so to speak, for the conference is Ashgate Press.� A sample of the publication guidelines is appended below.

R.W. Mathisen/March 2005/updated March 2007/updated March 2009/updated Aug. 2011/updated March 2013

n.b. This budget includes just over $8000 of �real� money income.

BUDGET NOTES:

1. Note that the presenter registration fees of @ $100 each appear under both income and expenditures, income in the sense that this is what they would have paid to register, expenditures in the sense that each presenter is given a $100 (or whatever the registration fee is) contribution to their travel expenses. In past years, we collected the registration fee from presenters and paid them their travel subsidy as separate operations. We subsequently realized that the bureaucratic activity could be greatly streamlined if the travel subsidy were made equal to the registration fee and if a cash transaction were replaced with a paper transaction.

2. When calculating the amount of food needed for breaks, breakfasts, etc., a good rule of thumb is to use no more than half the total number of registrants, on the assumption that (1) not all registrants will be present at all times, and (2) even those present will not all be eating.

3. A bit of extra income can be generated, and special requests can be accommodated by selling extra banquet tickets for $30 or so, in case anyone wants to come just to the banquet, or if someone wants to bring a spouse/partner/friend.

4. Note that we offered a "Attend only" registration for students that included breaks and such but did not include the banquet.

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5. A bit of extra income can be generated by selling abstract booklets at a reasonable price.

6. We make a larger contribution toward plenary speaker travel expenses (in our case it was $500).

7. In the past, we've given student helpers a free student registration (including banquet attendance). This will appear in the budget under expenses.

GUIDELINES FOR PANEL CHAIRS

Here are a few guidelines based on past Shifting Frontiers traditions....

In general, we've had two guiding precepts:

1. Allow each presenter his/her full component of allocated time, and

2. Provide ample time for questions and discussion.

Each presenter is allocated a maximum of half an hour. This includes chair's introductions, passing around handouts, etc. etc. Each paper is allocated an absolute maximum of 20 minutes for presentation. Whatever then remains from the half-hour slot is devoted to discussion.

**Note that questions and discussion are after each paper, not at the end of the session, so as to allow each presenter his/her fair share of discussion time**

Procedures for paper delivery:

At the 15-minute mark the chair shows a sign saying "5 MINUTES"

At the 18-minute mark, ditto with a sign saying "2 MINUTES"

At the 20-minute mark a sign saying "TIME'S UP"

If the presenter does not then wind it up within 10 seconds, chair walks over and stands right next to them and hustles them off stage if need be!

Please note that several of our presenters are known for being long-winded, and that you might be called upon to be rather, well, forceful in getting them to wind it up if it looks like they are going past the 20-minute mark. You have our full support in doing so, for we have already hammered in the 20-minute deadline.

Appropriate signs will be provided. If you wish, we also can provide a student assistant to serve as timekeeper.

However much time remains from the half-hour slot then can be used for questions and discussion. The next paper then should start, at the very latest, on the hour or half-hour.

If any presenters do not use up their full half-hour slot, then there will be time left at the end of the session for chairs to deliver any concluding words of summation that they might deem suitable.

SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

CONSTITUTION

Guidelines and Policies

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1. Mission.

�� The purpose of the Society for Late Antiquity (SLA) is to coordi�nate activi�ties that promote the study and understanding of Late Antiquity.� These activities include dissemi�nating informa�tion; encour�aging interac�tion among scholars, students, and layper�sons; and foster�ing scholarly study.� For our purposes, "Late Antiqui�ty" is defined broadly in chrono�logical, geographic�al, and meth�odologi�cal terms.�

2. Activities.

�� The means used by the SLA to accomplish its mission shall include the sponsoring of 1) LT-ANTIQ, the Late Antiquity Discussion List; 2) A Home Page on the World Wide Web; 3) The Late Antiquity Newsletter (LAN); 4) The Journal of Late Antiquity (JLA); and 5) The biennial Late Antiquity conferenc�es.

3. Organizational Structure.

�� a. Membership.

�� 1. Voting Members of SLA shall consist of those in atten�dance at the biennial Late Antiq�uity confer�ences.� There will be a meet�ing of the Voting Members during the confer�ence.

�� 2. Adjunct Members of SLA shall consist of all those sub�scribed to either LT-ANTIQ or LAN.

�� b. SLA Governing Board.

�� The Governing Board shall consist of:

�� 1. The Discussion List and WEB page owner(s).

�� 2. The Newsletter Editor.

�� 3. The Editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity

�� 4. The Organizers of the next two upcoming biennial confer�ences.

�� 5. The organizer of the previous SF conference,

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�� 6. The Chair of the APA Five-Year Charter SLA Affiliation committee (1/7/2012)

�� 7. Three at-large members elected at the biennial confer�ence, who shall serve until the subse�quent conference.

�� The duties of the Governing Board shall be to:

�� 1. Co-ordinate undertakings intended to fulfill the Mission as stated above.

�� 2. Ensure that the Activities listed above are carried out.

�� 3. Conduct business in the name of SLA, including ini�tiat�ing and maintaining ties with other organizations and groups.

�� 4. Meet at least one time during the biennial confer�ence.

�� 5. Determine the schedule of future conferences.

�� 6. Recommend to the Voting Members any suggested changes to these policies, to be voted on during the meetings at the biennial conference.

�� 7. Make administrative changes in the period between conferences, with any substantive changes being brought before the membership at the next business meeting of the SLA

�� c. The Chair of the Governing Board.

�� 1. The Chair of the Governing Board shall be the Organizer of the upcoming confer�ence.

�� Duties of the Governing Board Chair:

�� a. Organize the biennial conference.��

�� b. Select the members of the Program Committee.

�� c. Preside over the meeting of the membership during the confer�ence.

�� d. The Chair-Elect of the Governing Board shall be the Organizer of the conference following the upcoming one.

�� e. Secretary

�� 1. The Secretary shall be chosen from among the members of the Governing Board.

�� Duties of the Secretary:

�� a. Take minutes at the annual meetings and distribute them via LAN.

�� b. Maintain archives of minutes of past meetings.

�� c. Notify the membership of upcoming meetings.

4. Conferences.

�� Conference organizers are encouraged as much as possible to adhere to the following confer�ence traditions:

�� 1. Each conference should be organized around a unifying theme.

�� 2. All sessions should be plenary in order to encourage coherence and uniformity.

�� 3. Ample opportunity for discussion and dialogue should be provided.

�� 4. Finances permitting, presenters should be provided with a token travel subsidy.

5. Finances.

�� The Society for Late Antiquity has no treasury and no funding of its own.� Those responsible for the carrying out of the various Activities listed above, including the organization of the biennial confer�ence, are responsible for providing the resources necessary for the performance of their duties.

6. Procedures.

Any procedural issues not dealt with above will be handled ac�cording to Roberts Rules of Order.

Unanimously Approved, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Confer�ence, 13 March 1997

Emended, Univ. of Indiana,� 4/5/2009.

ABSTRACT EVALUATION FORM

Please give each of the appended abstracts an evaluation number for Quality and Relevance based on the following table. Add Comment numbers too as needed. We�d like them by Nov. 20 or as soon after as humanly (and humanely?) possible.

Quality:

1.�� High quality � Accept for sure.

2. �� Good quality -- Accept

3. �� Questionable quality � Accept if there is room.

4. �� Unacceptable quality � Do not accept.

Relevance:

1.�� Very consistent with �Romans and Barbarians� theme

2.�� Somewhat consistent with �Romans and Barbarians� theme.

3.�� Marginally consistent with �Romans and Barbarians� theme.

4.�� Not consistent with �Romans and Barbarians� theme.

Comments:

Sample diagnostic comments for abstracts that need improvement (feel free to add your own categories!)

1. Unclear what is new.

2. Unclear what the thesis is

3. Unclear what the conclusion is.

4. Unclear what the evidence is

5. Topic is too broad

6. Topic is too narrow

7. Need to use additional evidence

8. Point is not sufficiently significant

9. Descriptive rather than analytical

10. Conclusion doesn�t follow from the evidence cited.

SAMPLE BOOK OF ABSTRACTS FORMAT

(in 8 �� by� 5 �� inch format)

N.B. The book of Abstracts is a bona fide academic publication. We distribute them to some of the top academic libraries in the country. So it should look nice (e.g. be bound, not in loose-leaf format)
THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

presents

Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI:

Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World

An Interdisciplinary Conference

The University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

March 17-20, 2005

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Visigothic Buckle, courtesy the Spurlock Museum, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

presents

Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI:

Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World

An Interdisciplinary Conference

The University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

March 17-20, 2005

COLLECTED ABSTRACTS

Ralph W. Mathisen

Danuta Shanzer

Editors

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................3

ROSTER OF PARTICIPANTS ...................................................................................5

CONFERENCE PROGRAM ...................................................................................8

ABSTRACTS .................................................................................14

MAP .................................................................................32

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This conference was supported by the generous assistance of

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC

The Medieval Studies Program, UIUC

with additional support provided by

The Department of History, UIUC

The Department of English, UIUC

The School of Art and Design, UIUC, and

The Department of the Classics, UIUC

Local Arrangements and Program Coordination:

Ralph Mathisen (UIUC)

Danuta Shanzer (UIUC)

Program Committee:

Thomas Burns (Emory University)

John Eadie (Michigan State University)

Hal Drake (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara)

Ralph Mathisen (UIUC)

Danuta Shanzer (UIUC)

Spurlock Museum Exhibit of Merovingian Artifacts:��

Douglas J. Brewer, Museum Director

Christa Deacy-Quinn, Collections Manager

Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey, Guest Curator

Beth Watkins, Education/Volunteer Coordinator

Jennifer White, Registrar

Bailey Young, Guest Curator

Publicity:

Rick Partin

Contact Information:

ralphwm@uiuc.edu, shanzer@uiuc.edu

Student Assistants:

Michael Collart

Jen Edwards

Chris Fletcher

Karl Goetze

Marcus Heckenkamp

Andrew Johnston

Becky Muich

Stephanie Renguso

Sarah Scalziti

Loula Strolonga

Erik Thompson

Angela Zielinski

Webpages:

www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/sf6reg.htm, home.earthlink.net\~ruricius\sf6reg.htm

The encouragement and support of the following faculty and administrators, all from the University of Illinois, also is gratefully acknowledged:

Robert Barrett, Dept. of English

John Buckler, Dept. of History

William M. Calder III, Dept. of the Classics

Martin Camargo, Head, Dept. of English

Jesse Delia, Acting Provost, Univ. of Illinois

Karen Fresco, Dept. of French

Kirk Freudenburg, Chair, Dept. of the Classics

Peter Fritzsche, Chair, Dept. of History

Anne D. Hedeman, Director of Medieval Studies

Stephen Jaeger, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Marianne Kalinke, Head, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Richard Layton, Dept. of Religious Studies

Sarah Mangelsdorf, Acting Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Megan McLaughlin, Dept. of History

Richard Mitchell, Dept. of History

Robert Ousterhout, Dept. of Architecture

Bruce Rosenstock, Dept. of Religious Studies

Larry Schehr, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Carol Symes, Dept. of History

Charlie Wright, Dept. of English

ROSTER OF PARTICIPANTS

Presenters

Sample format for

SHIFTING FRONTIERS FLYER

A tri-fold-over conference schedule from a single 8 � by 11 inch sheet, printed front and back, to be distributed along with the Book of Abstracts

(attached)

SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY

Publication Guidelines

Our primary concern is to have the contributions be as consistent with each other as possible, with regard to 1) relevance to the "Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World" theme, 2) length, and, in particular, 3) format.� We therefore have established the following guidelines, which are based upon the format used in the previous volumes:

Length, Focus, Relevance, and General Considerations

1. We had a large number of very fine contributions. In order to keep within the publishers maximum size guidelines, we have to enforce rigorous limits on the length of the contributions. Please limit your contribution to a *maximum* of 6,000 words, *including* the notes.� Use your wordprocessor's word-counter to confirm length (and be sure that it is counting the words in the notes!).� We will deal ruthlessly with contributions that exceed the limit!

2. Material, including the titles, should be cast as much as possible to be consistent with the "Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World" theme. The completed volume will be going out to referees who will look very carefully at the relevance of each contribution to the theme.

3. Keep background material to a minimum. No more than two paragraphs before you get into your specific topic. Likewise, limit background bibliography to a *few* key citations that can refer readers to additional bibliography, no more than five.

4. We are much more interested in how you place new interpretations on the primary source material than in recapitulations of secondary source material. If you find yourself saying "As Jones has suggested.." etc., too often, you probably need to go back and focus more on your own interpretations of the primary source material.

5. We want to get the volume out as quickly as possible. Drop-dead due date: August 31.

Footnotes

1. Footnotes (*NOT* endnotes) are to be placed at the bottom of the page (do not use internal notes EXCEPT very brief primary text citations, e.g. "(Amm.12.3.3)" should be included in the text.

2. In general, try to maximize your text by minimizing your notes.� If something is important enough to discuss, it should go into the main text. Otherwise, it should probably be left out.

3. Avoid long lists of references (i.e. "here's one reference, and another, and another...") in notes.� We simply lack the space to provide this useful service, and will have to prune where necessary if you don't.�

4. Use a semi-colon to separate individual works in a list of primary or bibliographical citations.

�� E.g. Amm. 3.14.2; Sid.Apoll. Epist. 3.14.2.

5. Be sure that all citations are complete, i.e. that journal citations have the proper volume and page numbers, and that primary sources have been checked.

6. Include notes at the places they are relevant; do not gather all your notes together, at the end of a paragraph or elsewhere, and then expect the reader to figure out which citation goes with which statement.

Secondary Sources

2. First Citations. The first citation of a book or article should be the full reference.�

�� For books, Author (first name, middle initial [if any], last name), Title (italicized) (Place‑of‑publication, Date).� Do not include publisher.� If page numbers are included, do not precede with a comma, do not include "p." or "pp," and use the minimum number of digits.� For places, use English‑language spellings, e.g. Munich, not M�nchen.

�� E.g. M.A. Smith, Barbarians and Romans (London, 1992) 115‑26.

�� For articles, Author (first name, middle initial [if any], last name), Title in double quotation marks (do not use single quote marks and do not use special characters), Journal Name (italicized, using standard abbreviations as in L'ann�e) volume‑number (date) page numbers.� Volume number must be in arabic (not Roman) numerals, do not use "vol." for periodicals, and include a space before the date.� Do not precede the page numbers with a comma, do not include "p." or "pp," and use the minimum number of digits.

�� E.g. R.A. Jones, "Sidonius and the Goths," AJPh 109(1979) 161‑168.

�� N.B. Put the author's first name and initial before the last name, e.g. M.A. Smith, not Smith, M.A..

3. Subsequent Citations.� Subsequent citations should be in short form, Author's‑lastname, Short title, page numbers: put a comma before the page numbers, do not use p. or pp.� Do not use op.cit.; use ibid. only to repeat the immediately preceding reference.

�� E.g. Smith, Ausonius, 115‑120� �� not� Smith, Ausonius 115‑120

�� or Jones, "Sidonius," 115‑120�� not� Jones "Sidonius" 115‑120

�� N.B. If a reference is included in a running note text, include a comma after the page number, e.g. "Smith, Ausonius, 13, states..."� not� "Smith, Ausonius, 13 states...."

4. For edited works, place "ed." after the name of the editor preceded by a comma, e.g.

�� "H.S. Smith, ed." not "ed. H.S. Smith" and not "H.S. Smith (ed.)"

�� Place the names of the editors before the title, e.g. H.S. Smith, ed., Shifting Frontiers, not Shifting Frontiers (H.S. Smith ed.)

5. If a person is the author of two works in a row in a list, use "Idem." for the second and subsequent occurrences.

�� E.g. Smith, Ausonius, 5‑30; Idem, "Alcimus," p.29.

6. Separate the names of multiple authors by commas, do not use the word "and", e.g. "M.S. Smith, A.W. Jones, eds., Shifting Frontiers", not "H.S. Smith and R.W. Jones..."

7. Capitalize words in English titles according to the usual rules, e.g.

�� "Study in Political Prudence.." not "Study in political prudence"

8. Check to be sure that foreign words in modern languages have the correct accents, and in ancient languages have the correct characters and spelling.� And be sure to follow the capitalization rules appropriate for each language: in general, for French and Italian capitalize only the first word and proper nouns in a title; for German capitalize all the nouns and names only.� Use italics for Greek and Latin words that appear in titles.

9. Cite dissertations as you would books; if printed copies of dissertations are available, e.g. from University Microfilms, do not refer to them as "unpublished."� E.g., R.W. Jones, The Barbarization of Late-Roman Spain (diss. Univ. of Salkahatchee, 1979; Ann Arbor, 1980).

10. If you have not already done so, include a consolidated bibliography of all the secondary works you cited on disk when you return your proofs.

Ancient source citations

1. Be sure to include references to all citations, especially from ancient authors.� If you say, e.g., "According to Ammianus...", be sure to cite Ammianus.

2. For Latin titles, only the first word is capitalized, e.g.

�� De spiritu sancto� not� De Spiritu Sancto

3. In general, abbreviate according to standard rules; spell out authors and titles that you consider to bemore obscure.� Do not include commas after abbreviated author's names and titles, or spaces within abbreviated phrases:

�� E.g. "Sid.Apoll. Epist. 3.1.14

�� But, "Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae 3.1.14.

Text Formatting

Contributions may be submitted in wither WORD or WORDPERFECT format.

The following rules prevail:

1. Except for tabs, DO NOT introduce any formatting control characters whatsoever into the text or notes, that is, line‑spacing, margin changes or releases, font changes, and so on; and do not use any style formats.� We mean it!�

2. Use one space after periods that end sentences, but no spaces after periods in series of initials: e.g. H.S. Smith, not H. S. Smith.� Watch out for and elimniate double spaces within sentences, e.g. "Goths and Sarmatians," not "Goths and� Sarmatians."

3. Begin paragraphs with a tab.

4. Use only one carriage return at the end of paragraphs.

5. Each note should end with a period.� There should not be a carriage return at the end of each note.

6. One space after commas, colons, and semi‑colons.

7. Commas and periods are placed inside quotation marks unless they are preceded by another quotation mark, e.g.

�� "'Let it be,' she said..."� or� "He said, 'Let it be.'"�� but� "Let it be!"

8. Always use double quotation marks; exception: only use single quotation marks only where quote marks are needed inside quotation marks, as above.

9. Use brackets in place of parentheses inside parenthetical material, e.g. (Jones [1979] p.161).

10. Put a comma before the last term in a list, e.g. "Franks, Goths, and Vandals"� not� "Franks, Goths and Vandals"

11. For interjections set off by dashes, use double dashes, e.g.

12. Dates should be in day(number) month(spelled) year(number) format,

�� E.g. "1 January 456" not "January 1, 456" or anything else.

13. Measures should be of the format, e.g.

�� "350km" not "350 km" or "350 kilometers"

14. If you are using illustrations, be sure they are all numbered, that the numbers match those in the text, and that you have secured all necessary permission.� Illustrations that are not specifically referred to in the text will not be used.

Grammar and Style

1. Please translate in the text all foreign language passages; include the primary language passage in the notes only if absolutely necessary.� Include foreign language citations in the notes only when the citation‑qua‑citation is significant (as, e.g., perhaps with an inscription or a coin legend).� Under no circumstances leave lengthy literary passages in Latin or Greek in the text.

2. Please be sure verb tenses are consistent.� When speaking of events that occurred in the past, under ordinary circumstances use the past tense, e.g. "Sidonius stressed that...." not "Sidonius stresses that..."

3. Avoid the use of the first person singular.� The use of "I" smacks too much of the original oral presentation, and your views should be supported by the evidence, or what you have argued, not by your personal "authority."� E.g.,

�� "As has been demonstrated above..."� not� "As I showed above..."

4. Please avoid discussing other work you have in progress, what you would like to do in the future, what you said somewhere else on a related topic, and so on.� We simply will not have the space.

5. References to modern persons in the text should be by last name only, e.g.

�� "As Smith has shown,..."� not� "As M.S. Smith has shown..."

6. For subdivisions in the text, use centered ALL CAPITALS for primary subdivisions.� Avoid secondary subdivisions, but if absolutely necessary use centered Italicized Lower Case.

7. Use abbreviations such as e.g., i.e., only in notes; in the text, write out:� "For example...", "Such as...", "That is...."

8. For approximate dates, use "ca." not "c." or "circa", without intervening space.

9. Use CE�� for� C.E. or A.D. or AD

�� Use BCE� for� B.C.E., B.C., or BC

�� Always put them after the date, e.g. 248 CE not AD 248.

10. The abbreviation "cf." stands for "confer," that is "compare" ─ it does not mean "see."

11. Keep verbiage in notes to a minimum, e.g. instead of "For further information on this topic, see..."� just say "See...."

12. The word "since" is temporal, that is, it refers to time; it is not causal.� For causation, use "because," not "since," e.g.

�� "Because Clovis was a Frank..." not "Since Clovis was a Frank.."

13. In lists, avoid using "etc." ‑‑ if there are other items worthy of inclusion, then include them, otherwise terminate your list with the items you have, e.g.

�� "Franks, Goths, and Vandals..."� not� "Franks, Goths, Vandals, etc."�

14. Use "toward," "afterward," and so on, not "towards," "afterwards"

15. Try to refer to barbarians collectively as "peoples," "groups," or some descriptive word other than "tribes."

16. Italicize Greek and Latin words and phrases used in the text, do not put in quotation marks, e.g.

�� veni, vidi, vici� not "Veni, vidi, vici"

17. When referring to centuries, spell out and use hyphens for adjectivals; do not capitalize, e.g.

�� "In the fourth century..."� not "In the 4th c. [or Fourth Century].."

�� "A fourth‑century specimen.."� not� "A fourth century [or 4th c.]..."

Abbreviations

Avoid including periods in standard abbreviations, e.g. use

BCE�� not� B.C.E. or B.C.

PL� �� not P.L., P.L., or PL� .... likewise:

CSEL, MGH, PG

also CCL�� not C.C.L., Corp.chr.lat., or CCL

also

Ep.� �� not Epist., epist., or ep.

Carm.� �� not carm. or C.

Do not italicize brief abbreviated phrases, for example:

e.g.� �� not e.g.

ca.�� not c., circa, or ca.

Refer to saints' lives as, e.g.,

VGermani�� not� Vita Germani� or Vit. Germani

Late Antiquity, not late antiquity.

�Capitalization

Late Antiquity� not� late antiquity (nominal)

late antique� not� Late Antique (adjectival)

Tetrarch, Tetrarchy

Empire

Barbaricum

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THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

presents

Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI:

Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World

An Interdisciplinary Conference

The University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

March 17-20, 2005

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