Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this 2011 book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman...(展开全部)

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity, and a direct challenge to the conventional views of the end of the empire. A world expert on the subject, Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests of the seventh century. With modern, in-depth archaeolog...(展开全部)

This book offers a large scale reassessment of the function of Roman emperor over three centuries (from Augustus to Constantine) and of the social realities of this exercise of power. Concentrating on the patterns of communication between the emperor and his subjects, the author shows that such communications were normally initiated by the subjects - whether grouped in cities o...(展开全部)

This book offers a large scale reassessment of the function of Roman emperor over three centuries (from Augustus to Constantine) and of the social realities of this exercise of power. Concentrating on the patterns of communication between the emperor and his subjects, the author shows that such communications were normally initiated by the subjects - whether grouped in cities o...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学历史学荣休教授。他毕业于牛津大学，并曾于伦敦大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。他对古代晚期这一研究领域做出了杰出贡献。他的著作尤其关注罗马帝国晚期和中世纪早期欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会的关系，作品包括：《希波的奥古斯丁》 《古代晚期的世界》《圣徒崇拜》《身体与社会》《西方基督教的崛起》《罗马帝国后期的贫困与领导》。 【译者简介】 王班班，德国海德堡大学“物质文本文化”研究中心助理研究员、古代史与碑铭学系博士研究生，主要研究领域为希腊碑铭学，译有《罗马：一个帝国的故事》。

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 deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 6...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学历史学荣休教授。他毕业于牛津大学，并曾于伦敦大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。他对古代晚期这一研究领域做出了杰出贡献。他的著作尤其关注罗马帝国晚期和中世纪早期欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会的关系，作品包括：《希波的奥古斯丁》 《古代晚期的世界》《圣徒崇拜》《身体与社会》《西方基督教的崛起》《罗马帝国后期的贫困与领导》。 【译者简介】 王班班，德国海德堡大学“物质文本文化”研究中心助理研究员、古代史与碑铭学系博士研究生，主要研究领域为希腊碑铭学，译有《罗马：一个帝国的故事》。

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 deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 6...(展开全部)

艾娃·德·安布拉是纽约波基普西(Poughkeepsie)瓦瑟学院(Vassar College)艺术系副教授，讲授罗马艺术与社会课程多年，著述颇丰。

Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. He offers not only the 'traditional' Roman subject matter of emperors and high politics, military campaigning and foreign wars, but new features symptomatic of his age - the machinations of t...(展开全部)