Remaking the past / Averil Cameron -- Sacred landscapes / Beatrice Caseau -- Philosophical tradition and the self / Henry Chadwick -- Religious communities / Garth Fowden -- Barbarians and ethnicity / Patrick J. Geary -- War and violence / Brent D. Shaw -- Empire building / Christopher Kelly -- Christian triumph and controversy / Richard Lim -- Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- Good life / Henry Maguire -- Habitat / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Alphabetical guide.