| The World of Late Antiquity Contributor(s): Brown, Peter (Author), Barraclough, Geoffrey (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393958035 ISBN-13: 9780393958034 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 932.023 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Library of World Civilization |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Peter: - Peter Brown (Ph.D. Oxford University) is the Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He previously taught at London University and the University of California, Berkeley. He has written on the rise of Christianity and the end of the Roman empire. His works include: Augustine of Hippo (1967); The World of Late Antiquity (1972); The Cult of the Saints (1981); Body and Society (1988), The Rise of Western Christendom (1995 and 2002); Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002). He is presently working on issues of wealth and poverty in the late Roman and early medieval Christian world. |
