By Philip Rousseau
- Provides a necessary evaluate of present scholarship on overdue antiquity – from among the accession of Diocletian in advert 284 and the tip of Roman rule within the Mediterranean
- Comprises 39 essays from the various world's prime students of the era
- Presents this once-neglected interval as an age of robust transformation that formed the fashionable world
- Emphasizes the relevant significance of faith and its reference to monetary, social, and political life
- Winner of the 2009 unmarried quantity Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by way of the organization of yank Publishers
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