The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 - Library of European Civilization

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.

ISBN:	9780500330227
Publisher:	Thames and Hudson Ltd
Imprint:	Thames and Hudson
Published date:	20 Mar 1989
DEWEY:	930.5
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	43367
Number of pages:	216
Weight:	450g
Height:	210mm
Width:	149mm
Spine width:	16mm

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