The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, 395-700 AD
By: Averil Cameron
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Routledge history of the ancient world; Routledge history of the ancient world
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780415579629; 9780415579612; 9780203809082
Subjects: Romans; Social life and customs; Civilization; Social conditions; Antiquities; Social change; History
Description: This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. [The author] focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests. Two new chapters survey the situation in the east after the death of Justinian and cover the Byzantine wars with Persia, religious developments in the eastern Mediterranean during the life of Muhammad, the reign of Heraclius, the Arab conquests and the establishment of the Umayyad caliphate --

Using the latest in-depth archaeological evidence, this all-round historical and thematic study of the west and the eastern empire has become the standard work on the period. The new edition takes account of recent research on topics such as the barbarian ‘invasions’, periodization, and questions of decline or continuity, as well as the current interest in church councils, orthodoxy and heresy and the separation of the miaphysite church in the sixth-century east. It contains a new introductory survey of recent scholarship on the fourth century AD, and has a full bibliography and extensive notes with suggestions for further reading --
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constantinople and the eastern empire; title: The empire and the barbarians; title: Christianization and its challenges; title: Late Roman society and economy; title: Justinian and reconquest; title: Late antique culture and private life; title: Urban change and the late antique countryside; title: The eastern Mediterranean : a region in ferment; title: A changed world.