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Title: The Evolution of the Late Antique World by Peter Garnsey, Caroline Humfress ISBN: 1-903283-00-0 Publisher: Orchard Academic Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Summary: The Late Roman Empire well revisited
Comment: In an introductory chapter Garnsey and Humfress cite their book's aim of enticing "the young to explore late Antiquity while providing entertainment and provocation for the experts." Rather than writing a linear history of the third to fifth centuries, the authors take a thematic approach to achieve this. Beginning with a chapter titled "The decline and fall of the Principate," which traces the evolution of the office of emperor from an elected magistrate to a despotic soldier-imperator (who, ironically, cannot control his armies), ruling with the help of civil servants. Nine subsequent chapters -- Emperors and bureaucrats; Law and legal practice; Social hierarchies and cultural identities; Daily bread; Religion; Morality and the family, Social radicalism -- end with the authors'comments on Edward Gibbon's belief that "an immoderate greatness" was the cause of Rome's fall.
The introduction also provides a summary of the material, such as the impact of the barbarians on politics, urban and rural society, the army, and the emergence of a Christianity that preached its moral values from countless churches (in contrast to the ritualistic basis of Roman religion), as clergy tried to change society by working within the system -- despite the radical efforts of some ascetics. The authors' analysis of Gibbon's viewpoint, which was formed against a background of 18th century thought on the concept of empire, stresses his grasp of the moral and political symbolism of the Capitoline Hill at Rome. The Western Empire's fall that Gibbon saw as "simple and obvious," is upheld by the authors, who then argue that Gibbon (died 1794)had a precise notion of decline and, crucially, of fall, which was conditioned by his era.
To give a sense of time and place most chapters include extensive quotes from primary sources. A dozen illustrations are placed in appropriate sections of the text.
Albert Noyer / Author, The Saint's Day Deaths
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Title: Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures) by Peter Robert Lamont Brown ISBN: 1584651466 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History by Peregrin Horden, Nicholas Purcell, Peregrine Horden ISBN: 0631218904 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Readings in Late Antiquity : A Sourcebook by Michael Maas ISBN: 0415159881 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (Omite British Commonwealth) by Peter Garnsey, Richard P. Saller ISBN: 0520060679 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Later Roman Empire: Ad 284-430 by Averil Cameron ISBN: 0674511948 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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