Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives

by Teresa Bernheimer and Adam J. Silverstein

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 Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian empire (in what is now modern Iran) became equally powerful as the Byzantine empire, and the two often forged their characters and practices on the basis of their relations with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094534
• ISBN13: 9780906094532
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"