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  • Empires and Indigenous Peoples

    Comparing Ancient Roman and North American Experiences

    Edited by Michael Maas, Fay A. Yarbrough ...
    The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions about the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Conqueror's Gift

    Roman Ethnography and the End of Antiquity

    by Michael Maas ...
    The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, especially those who guide its course, understand themselves in the midst of enemies, allies, and friends. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian

    Edited by Michael Maas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity

    Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750

    Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Michael Maas ...
    Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Readings in Late Antiquity

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Michael Maas ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In the East, Byzantium emerged, while the Persian Empire reached ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila

    Edited by Michael Maas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    This book examines the age of Attila, roughly the fifth century CE, an era in which western Eurasia experienced significant geopolitical and cultural changes. The Roman Empire collapsed in western Europe, replaced by new 'barbarian' kingdoms, but it continued in Christian Byzantine guise in the eastern Mediterranean. New states and peoples changed the face of northern Europe, while in Iran, the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • John Lydus and the Roman Past

    Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian

    by Michael Maas ...
    John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates how the past could be used to convey legitimacy and social definition at a time of profound change. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise of Western Christendom

    Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000

    by Peter Brown ...
    Series Book 3 - Making of Europe
    This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.Clear ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

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  • Church History

    An Essential Guide

    by Justo L. Gonzalez ...
    One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with them. Struggling to keep up with the large numbers of names, dates, and places presented to them, it is easy for students to lose sight of the "big picture," the broad sweep of movement and change that instructors most wish to communicate. Justo Gonzalez ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Late Antiquity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gillian Clark ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the eastern and southern Mediterranean coasts by the seventh century. Asking 'what, where, and when' Gillian Clark presents an introduction to the concept of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD