Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity Ad 395-700

Name: Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity Ad 395-700
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ISBN: 9780415579612

ISBN-10: 0415579619

ISBN-13: 9780415579612

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Averil Cameron

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This thoroughly revised edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 365 ' 600 A.D. provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity, and a direct challenge to the conventional views of the end of the empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests and in a new chapter surveys the situation in the west after the death of Justinian and covers the Byzantine wars with Persia, the reign of Heraclius, the Arab conquests and the establishment of the Umayyad caliphate.With modern, in-depth archaeological evidence, this all-round historical and thematic study of the west and eastern empires…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of figures


List of maps


Acknowledgements


Preface to the first edition


Preface to the second edition


Abbreviations


Introduction



Constantinople and the eastern empire



The empire and the barbarians



Christianization and its challenges



Late Roman society and economy



Justinian and reconquest



Late antique culture and private life



Urban change and the late antique countryside



The eastern Mediterranean - a region in ferment



A changed world


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index