Rousseau, Philip
A Companion to Late Antiquity
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.
- Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
- Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era
- Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
- Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
- Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
Keywords: History, Classics, Late Antiquity, Mediterranean, Roman, Latin
- Editor
- Rousseau, Philip
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
- Page amount
- 736 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118293478
