World of Late Antiquity

Name: World of Late Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780393958034

ISBN-10: 0393958035

ISBN-13: 9780393958034

Edition: 1989

Authors: Peter Brown, Geoffrey Barraclough

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These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided…

Book details

List price: $19.20
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.15" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English