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The World of Late Antiquity (Library of European Civilization)

AD 150-750

Peter Brown

£12.99

A ground-breaking work of scholarship, considering the Late Antique World as a period of immense cultural innovation

Overview


This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-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.

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.

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Book Details

Format: Paperback

Size: 21.0 x 14.9 cm

Extent: 216 pp

Illustrations: 130

Publication date: 20 March 1989

ISBN: 9780500330227

About the Author

Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His work concerns the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.