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428 AD
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 24.95This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western... more...
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establishment of the first 'barbarian kingdoms' in the West, to the eve of Justinian's wars of reconquest. It makes a significant contribution to the developing field of ancient and medieval communication. more...
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Penguin Books Ltd 1979; Not AvailableThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline. more...
Theory and practice in late antique archaeology
BRILL 2003; US$ 150.00An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity. more...
Justinian's Flea
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 16.00The epic story of the collision between one of nature?s smallest organisms and history?s mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the... more...
Hellenism in Byzantium
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 50.00Examines what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium. more...
Late Antiquity
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 9.99Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction?Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the eastern and southern Mediterranean coasts by the seventh century. Asking 'what, where, and when' Gillian... more...
Plague and the End of Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. more...
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 39.95The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity, and a direct challenge to the conventional views of the end of the empire. A world expert on the subject, Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests of the seventh century.... more...
The Black Death
Greenwood Publishing Group 2004; US$ 50.00Eight thematic chapters guide the reader through the medical perspective of the plague - medieval and modern - and the plague's impact on society, cities, individuals, and art of the time. An annotated timeline guides the reader through the key events and dates of this recurring disaster. more...









