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1. Readings in Late Antiquity

   A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Michael Maas

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
2. John Lydus and the Roman Past

   Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian

   By Michael Maas

   John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates...

   Published February 19th 1992 by Routledge