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A Companion to Late Antiquity

Philip Rousseau editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:9th Feb '12

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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

ISBN: 9781118255315

Dimensions: 246mm x 173mm x 34mm

Weight: 1107g

736 pages