The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, Ad 395-600

by Averil Cameron

Book Overview

Provides both a detailed introduction to the period of late antiquity, and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415014204
• ISBN13: 9780415014205
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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.