The world of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750
Brown, Peter, 1935-2013
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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 civilisation'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from 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.
Main title:
The world of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 / Peter Brown.
Author:
Brown, Peter, 1935-, author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, [2013]
Collation:
216 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: 1971.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780500330227 (pbk)
Dewey class:
930.5930913.Br11
Local class:
913Dr11
Language:
English
Index terms:
World, 150-750
BRN:
620504