From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond

From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond
Title From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Averil Cameron
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 237
Release 2023-05-23
Genre History
ISBN 1000878740

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Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject as well as Cameron’s own development as a historian over many decades. It provides a revealing and important survey of some profound historiographical changes. Her volume contains fundamental papers and reviews that tell a story in which she has played a leading part. They move from her early days as an ancient historian to her important contribution in the establishment of the field of late antiquity and point to her later work as a Byzantinist, a trajectory rivalled by few other scholars. The book will be important for scholars and students of the later Roman empire and late antiquity, and for anyone interested in the inheritance of Edward Gibbon, the perennial questions about the end of the Roman empire and its supposed decline, or the emergence of Islam in the early seventh century and its relation to the late antique world. (CS 1113).

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Title The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Hugh Elton
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 401
Release 2018-11-22
Genre History
ISBN 1108686273

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In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest, and concludes with the twin wars against Persians and Arabs in the seventh century AD. Elton isolates two major themes that emerge in this period. He notes that a new form of decision-making was created, whereby committees debated civil, military, and religious matters before the emperor, who was the final arbiter. Elton also highlights the evolution of the relationship between aristocrats and the Empire, and provides new insights into the mechanics of administering the Empire, as well as frontier and military policies. Supported by primary documents and anecdotes, The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity is designed for use in undergraduate courses on late antiquity and early medieval history.

Classics in Progress

Classics in Progress
Title Classics in Progress PDF eBook
Author T. P. Wiseman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 476
Release 2006-01-26
Genre History
ISBN 9780197263235

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The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.

The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430

The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430
Title The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 PDF eBook
Author Averil Cameron
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 260
Release 1993
Genre History
ISBN 9780674511941

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Marked by a power shift from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the pivotal fourth century, doing justice to the enormous explosion of recent scholarship.

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
Title The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Averil Cameron
Publisher Routledge
Pages 270
Release 2002-09-11
Genre History
ISBN 1134980817

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This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
Title Law and Empire in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Jill Harries
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 250
Release 2001-10-11
Genre History
ISBN 9780521422734

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This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the third to the fifth century AD. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and using the writings of lawyers and legal anthropologists, as well as those of historians, the book offers new interpretations of central questions: What was the law of late antiquity? How efficacious was late Roman law? What were contemporary attitudes to pain, and the function of punishment? Was the judicial system corrupt? How were disputes settled? Law is analysed as an evolving discipline, within a framework of principles by which even the emperor was bound. While law, through its language, was an expression of imperial power, it was also a means of communication between emperor and subject, and was used by citizens, poor as well as rich, to serve their own ends.

Fifty Years of Prosopography

Fifty Years of Prosopography
Title Fifty Years of Prosopography PDF eBook
Author Averil Cameron
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 204
Release 2003-07-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780197262924

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Examining the effect of new technology on the science of prosopography, this academic text also discusses the role of the British Academy and parallel European institutions in developing prosopographical research on the Later Roman Empire, Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon and other time periods.