The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity Ad 395-600

by Averil Cameron

Book Overview

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415014212
• ISBN13: 9780415014212
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Fantastic study

Cameron, a renowned late antique scholar, has written an excellent thematic study of the later Roman Empire. While the scholarship is of the highest quality, the book is written so that a layman could read it. As much as I hate endnotes, even that doesn't detract from this book. Where this book really shines is its thematic arrangement and masterful tone. Cameron expertly deals with issues surrounding the church, urban change, Justinian's era and the Roman army. This book is not a history of the period, so readers looking for a chronological slog are better of elsewhere. Her tone demonstrates mastery of her subject, and is always hinting at the depth of the topics, whilst never going into so much detail that it'll bore most common readers and students. In sum, this is an excellent thematic treatment of the 4th and 5th centuries. Read this instead of "Justinian's Flea" and you'll actually learn something.