The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

A CHANGED WORLD secondary centres including Jerusalem, Amman, Resafa, Tiberias, Jerash and Scythopolis.^56 Change and continuity ...

CONCLUSION For a book that appeared in 1993, the choice of the title The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity did not seem to n ...

CONCLUSION traditional since the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne denied the idea that the Roman empire ended with the barbarian ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY James O’Donnell has emphasized,^13 it is also sharply raised by the wars of Justinian ...

CONCLUSION forgotten in the search for explanations of its supposed decline and fall. Thus, while Justinian’s wars may have over ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY anthropology, according to which complex societies tend of themselves to become ever m ...

CONCLUSION from a variety of allegiances, when differing cultural and mental systems jos- tled for pre-eminence, is, after all, ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY documentary texts such as the acts of the church councils, with the realization that s ...

NOTES Introduction 1 All dates are AD/CE. 2 A forceful case is made for the predominance of Greek in the east in the fi fth cent ...

13 For orientation, see Luke Lavan and William Bowden, eds., Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology (Leiden: Brill, 200 ...

Rousseau, ed., A Companion to Late Antiquity; Scott Johnson, ed., Handbook to Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2 ...

41 Amm., Hist. 28.1; they were followed by further trials at Antioch and elsewhere in the east: for the issues involved, see Mat ...

Harries, Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Ralph Mathisen, ed., Law, Society and A ...

the speech to 398 and Synesius’ departure to 400 and supposing that the surviving speech is not the one actually delivered befor ...

and A.T. Reyes, ‘Reconstructing the Serapeum from the archaeological evidence’, Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004), 35–63. 27 Be ...

the early middle ages’, in D. Baker, ed., The Orthodox Churches and the West (Oxford: Black- well, 1976), 97–118. 39 See on this ...

also the discussions in Ralph W. Mathisen and Hagith S. Sivan, eds. Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Aldershot: Variorum, 1 ...

27 After 1,000 years, consuls now ceased to be appointed except when the offi ce was taken by eastern emperors themselves: see A ...

39 (1985), 62–74; E. Chrysos, ‘Byzantine diplomacy, AD 300–800: means and ends’, in J. Shepard and S. Franklin, eds., Byzantine ...

62 See Lee, ‘Warfare and the state’, 396–98, with J.M. O’Flynn, Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire (Edmonton, Alberta: U ...