East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion / by Wolf Liebeschuetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon), author.

Series:

Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; Volume 20.

Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 406) (Series), 1572-0500 ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Rome--History.

Social change.

Roman provinces--History.

Roman provinces.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.

Rome.

Rome--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (507 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Wolf Liebeschuetz

1 Rubbish Disposal in Greek and Roman Cities / Wolf Liebeschuetz

2 Was There a Crisis of the Third Century? / Wolf Liebeschuetz

3 Transformation and Decline: Are the Two Really Incompatible? / Wolf Liebeschuetz

4 Unsustainable Development: The Origin of Ruined Landscapes in the Roman Empire / Wolf Liebeschuetz

5 Warlords and Landlords / Wolf Liebeschuetz

6 The Debate about the Ethnogenesis of the Germanic Tribes / Wolf Liebeschuetz

7 Making a Gothic History: Does the Getica of Jordanes Preserve Genuinely Gothic Traditions? / Wolf Liebeschuetz

8 Why did Jordanes Write the Getica? / Wolf Liebeschuetz

9 Habitus Barbarus: Did Barbarians Look Different From Romans? / Wolf Liebeschuetz

10 Barbarians and Taxes / Wolf Liebeschuetz

11 Violence in the Barbarian Successor Kingdoms / Wolf Liebeschuetz

12 Goths and Romans in the Leges Visigothorum / Wolf Liebeschuetz

13 The Impact of the Imposition of Roman Rule on Northern Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz

14 Nomads, Phylarchs and Settlement in Syria and Palestine / Wolf Liebeschuetz

15 Late Late Antiquity (6th and 7th Centuries) in the Cities of the Roman Near East / Wolf Liebeschuetz

16 Arab Tribesmen and Desert Frontiers in Late Antique Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz

17 Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods: The Revival and Justification of Traditional Religion / Wolf Liebeschuetz

18 The View from Antioch: From Libanius via John Chrysostom to John Malalas and Beyond / Wolf Liebeschuetz

19 From Antioch to Piazza Armerina and Back Again / Wolf Liebeschuetz

20 Theodoret’s Graecarum affectionum curatio: Defending Christianity in Christian Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz

21 The School of Antioch and Its Opponents / Wolf Liebeschuetz

22 The Lower Danube Region under Pressure: From Valens to Heraclius / Wolf Liebeschuetz

Index / Wolf Liebeschuetz.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28952-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289529 DOI