This books captures Rome's fall and rebirth during this tumultous period. The author details the rise of Christianity and its effects on the city as well as the political and cultural atmosphere. Also inlcludes six maps.
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..."a wonderful reminder of the eternal city's vibrant continuity, as well as its profound evolution during an epoch that is still misunderstood by many as one of retraction and decline. ...informative....."
-The Classical Outlook, Winter 2002
-The Classical Outlook, Winter 2002
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Bertrand Lancon is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Valenciennes.
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This review is from: Rome in Late Antiquity: AD 312 - 609 (Paperback)
Ably Translated by Antonia Nevill and with an introduction and guide to further reading by Mark Humphries, Bertrand Lancon's Rome In Late Antiquity surveys Roman life from the third to the seventh centuries AD, from the Rome's acknowledge position as the center of Western Civilization, the greatest city in the world, and whose vast revenues supplied its huge populations with food, wine, and at least one hundred days of spectacular entertainment each year. When Pope Gregory died in Rome in 604, Rome had become a Papal power, the center of Western Christianity, the pantheon had been transformed into a church, and the city had experienced both Gothic and Vandal incursions of great violence and rapacity. Lancon's superbly presented history also covers changes in sexuality, the role of women, education, the family, calendars of games and festivals, the role of the Senate, the rise of the papacy, and more. Rome In Late Antiquity is a splendid work of impeccable scholarship that is to be commended to all academic reading lists and reference collections in the study of Roman history.
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No other city than Rome can offer the modern tourist such an impression of the way in which the various ages of history have overlapped and been superimposed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ammianus Marcellinus, Gregory the Great, Roman Forum, Petronius Maximus, Christian Rome, Circus Maximus, Trajan's Forum, Petronius Probus, Roman Senate, Sidonius Apollinaris, Marius Victorinus, Easter Day, Junius Bassus, Pope Innocent, Roman Christianity, Sta Maria Maggiore, Historia Augusta, Pope Celestine, Pope Damasus, Roman Christians, Stefano Rotondo, Via Appia New!
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No other city than Rome can offer the modern tourist such an impression of the way in which the various ages of history have overlapped and been superimposed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ammianus Marcellinus, Gregory the Great, Roman Forum, Petronius Maximus, Christian Rome, Circus Maximus, Trajan's Forum, Petronius Probus, Roman Senate, Sidonius Apollinaris, Marius Victorinus, Easter Day, Junius Bassus, Pope Innocent, Roman Christianity, Sta Maria Maggiore, Historia Augusta, Pope Celestine, Pope Damasus, Roman Christians, Stefano Rotondo, Via Appia New!
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- The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- New History (Byzantina Australiensia 2) by Zosimus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theoderic In Italy (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by John Moorhead in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 12: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337 by Alan Bowman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Theodosian Code by Jill Harries in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Rome in Late Antiquity: AD 313 - 604 by Bertrand Lançon in Front Matter
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