The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

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THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY AD 395– This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Lat ...

ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Series Editor: Fergus Millar THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST C.3000–330 BC Amélie Kuhrt GREECE IN T ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY 395–700 AD Second Edition Averil Cameron ...

First published 1993. This second edition published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simult ...

CONTENTS List of figures vi List of maps vii Acknowledgements viii Preface to the first edition ix Preface to the second edition ...

LIST OF FIGURES ...

1.1 The base of the obelisk in the Hippodrome 1.2 Istanbul: Justinian’s church of St Sophia 1.3 A Byzantine empress, late fi ft ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Unless otherwise stated, the images are the author’s own. The following images have been reproduced with permis ...

ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The shape and parameters of this book are explained by the fact that it was conceived as part of ...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION x particularly diffi cult of access. Luckily, a useful brief narrative is provided in Roger Collins ...

xi PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The period of nearly eighteen years since the publication of The Mediterra- nean World in Late ...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xii the Islamic period. I am grateful to Geoffrey Greatrex and Shaun Tougher, the two readers, for ...

xiii ABBREVIATIONS BAR British Archaeological Reports CTh Codex Theodosianus CJ Codex Justinianus Migne, PG J.P. Migne, Patrolog ...

INTRODUCTION PART I: APPROACHING THE PERIOD The division between east and west In the year AD 395 the Emperor Theodosius I died, ...

1 MAXIMA CAESARIENSIS2 NARBONENSIS I3 NARBONENSIS II4 VIENNENSIS5 SEQUANIA6 GRAIAE ALPES7 ALPES MARITIMAE8 ALPES COTTIAE9 AEMILI ...

INTRODUCTION one base, or ‘capital’, to another – Trier in Germany, Sirmium or Serdica in the Danube area or Nicomedia in Bithyn ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY date therefore traditionally marks the ‘fall of the western empire’. The eastern Emper ...

INTRODUCTION regarded as having reached its apogee under the Antonines in the second century AD. Rostovzeff applied to Rome the ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY members, as individuals wrestled with the conflicting claims of the church and their o ...