The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, 395-700 AD / Averil Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Averil.

Series:

Routledge history of the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romans.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

History.

Social change.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Civilization.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.

Social change--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Romans--Mediterranean Region--History.

Romans--Mediterranean Region--Social life and customs.

Romans--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period ad 395-700, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron 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 chutch 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.

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-700 continues to be the benchmark for publications on the history of late antiquity and is indispensable to anyone studying the period. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index.

ISBN:

9780415579629

0415579627

9780415579612

0415579619

9780203809082

0203809084

OCLC:

707628137

Publisher Number:

99945109167