The World of Late Antiquity
AD 150-750
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216 pages · Released 1989 · W. W. Norton
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This is a scholarly historical survey of a transformative period (AD 150–750) written by a leading academic, covering the fall of empires, religious upheaval, and cultural fragmentation. While the subject matter inherently involves conflict and institutional collapse, the treatment is analytical rather than graphic. The book is dense and academic, best suited to older teens or adults with genuine interest in late antique history.
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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 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, exam... 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 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on 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.
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- History
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- Civilisation
- 475 (Empire)
- Histoire
- Civilization, history
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ISBN 9780393958034 · W. W. Norton