Late Antiquity & Byzantium
The Roman Empire from the rise of Christianity in the fourth century to its fall in the west in the fifth, and the Eastern/Byzantine Empire through to its fall in the fifteenth century.
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Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire: The Third Century A.D. [Paperback]
Michael Grant (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780415642293
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Grant asserts that it was a miracle that the third century Roman empire did not collapse, and expresses amazement at its continuing for another 200 years in the west, and for far longer in the east. The reasons for both collapse and recovery, ... .... Learn More -
The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt [Paperback]
Richard Alston (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780415642354
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Focusing on the period between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, Alston's detailed study draws on a wealth of papyrological and documentary evidence to look at the impact of Roman and then Christian influences on the architecture and ... .... Learn More -
Byzantine Chronicles and the Sixth Century [Hardback]
Roger Scott (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781409441106
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Byzantine chronicles have traditionally been regarded as a somewhat inferior form of Byzantine history writing, especially in comparison with 'classicizing' historians. The aim of many of these papers is both to rescue the reputat... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism [Hardback]
Amy Hollywood (Editor); Patricia Z. Beckman (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9780521863650
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism [Paperback]
Amy Hollywood (Editor); Patricia Z. Beckman (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9780521682275
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in... .... Learn More -
Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian 'the Apostate' [Hardback]
Nicholas J. Baker-Brian (Editor); Shaun Tougher (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781905125500
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments ... .... Learn More -
Constantine and the Christian Empire [Paperback]
Charles M Odahl (Author)
£23.99ISBN: 9780415645140
Published by : Routledge Ltd
For thirty years Charles Matson Odahl has traced Constantine's footsteps around Britain, continental Europe and the Middle East, in a quest to understand this most astute of emperors as well as his role in solving the troubles of the 3rd centur... .... Learn More -
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome [Hardback]
Peter Brown (Author)
£27.95ISBN: 9780691152905
Published by : Princeton University Press
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. "Through the Eye of a Needl... .... Learn More -
Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives [Hardback]
Teresa Bernheimer (Editor); Adam J. Silverstein (Editor)
£39.00ISBN: 9780906094532
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquit... .... Learn More -
The End of Byzantium [Paperback]
Jonathan Harris (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780300187915
Published by : Yale University Press
This interesting study, full of analysis and insight, traces the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century. The famous siege of 1453 is covered, but the focus is much more on the mix of diplomacy and accomodation which character... .... Learn More