INDEXBarsymes, Peter 124
Basilicus, usurper 37
bath-houses 205–6
Bede 8
Belisarius 106, 111, 112, 117, 121; Italy 110,
115; North Africa 36, 44, 109, 111
‘benign’ late antiquity 213
Berbers 118
bishops: African 119; education 132–3;
emperors and 70; rise of 64–6
Bloch, H. 18
Boethius 47–8
Bourdieu, P. 128, 129
Bowersock, G. 182
Britain 43, 56
Brown, P. 5–6, 7, 78, 128–9, 184
building 10; churches see church
building; Justinian’s building
programme 10, 119–22, 150–1, 157
Bulgars 211
bureaucracysee administration
burials 156
Byzantium 7, 156–7, 213; see also
Constantinople
Cameron, Alan 75, 163, 165
caravan trade 172–3
Carthage 111, 149, 155
Cassiodorus 7–8, 47, 127
catastrophists 209
Cavadh, Persian shah 80, 112, 188, 189, 197
Chaldaean Oracles 135
change, and continuity 10, 207, 208–14
charioteers 165
Charlemagne 213
children 141
Chosroes I, Persian shah 112–13, 136, 188,
189, 192, 193
Chosroes II, Persian shah 189, 193, 195,
197, 258
Christianity/Christianization 5, 11, 13–14,
18–19, 58–83, 94, 129; church building
see church building; church councils
see church councils; the church and
wealth 81–3; Constantinople 20–3;
conversion to 72, 189–90; and
culture 137–9; emperors and the
church 66, 69–71; family and private
life 139–42; and Jews/Judaism 75–6,
182–3, 195–7; Julian and 15–16;
monks, ascetics and holy men 67, 76–81,
139–40, 160, 183–4; paganism and
72–5; private and public religion 71–2;
religious divisions 28–9, 67–9, 185–7,
201–3; rise of bishops 64–6; under
Islam 203–7; and urban change 159–60;
and women 142–4
chrysargyron (gold and silver tax) 98
Chrysostom, John, St 18, 21, 22, 28–9,
64–5, 71
church building 13, 59–64; Christians under
Islam 205–6; Constantine 13, 59, 60;
Justinian 62, 104, 120–1
church councils 9, 19, 26–7, 29–33, 185–7;
ecumenical 29, 67–8; see also under
individual councils
Church of the East (Assyrian
Christians) 205; see Nestorian church
circus factions (Blues and Greens) 34–5,
111, 163–4, 196
cities 146–67; archaeology 148–51; and
countryside 146–8, 161–2; curials 90–1,
94, 160–1; decline of and the end
of classical antiquity 151; decline
vs prosperity 158–9; economics of
urban change 100–1; economy and
administration 160–2; interpreting
urban change 157–60; the late antique
city 152; rioting 32–3, 162–6, 196;
Umayyad rule and 206–7; urban
change 152–7; urban civic culture
130–3
class, social 92–6
Claudian 25
Clotild 46
Clovis 46, 48
codification of the law 104, 105–6
coinage 14, 100
coloni 88–90
comparative history 209
Constans II, emperor
Constantine I, emperor 12–14, 20, 55,
69–70, 92, 181; church building 13, 59,
60; mausoleum of 24
Constantine III, emperor 56
Constantinople 3, 7, 10, 14, 20–5, 32,
146–7; archaeology 148–9; church
building 20–1, 59–60, 62; emperors
and the city 33–5; and the Goths 18,
22–3, 25–6; Hippodrome 21, 34–5,
111, 165; Nika revolt 34, 111, 162–3;
patriarch 66; riots 32–3, 162–3; siege
of 626 191; St Sophia church 20,
22, 28, 62, 111, 127; threat posed by
the Goths 25–6; trade 173; see also
Byzantium
ConstantiusChlorus, emperor 12
Constantius II, emperor 14–15, 20–1