Late Antiquity & Byzantium Books

New and Published Books

1. The Byzantine World

   Edited by Paul Stephenson

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and...

   Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

   AD 395-700, 2nd Edition

   By Averil Cameron

   Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World

   This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses...

   Published September 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Early Christian Dress

   Gender, Virtue, and Authority

   By Kristi Upson-Saia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Byzantine Empresses

   Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

   By Lynda Garland

   Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society

   By Shaun Tougher

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
6. Constantine and the Christian Empire

   2nd Edition

   By Charles Odahl

   Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

   This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 – 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles Odahl relates the rise of Constantine amid the crises of the late Roman world, his dramatic...

   Published June 14th 2010 by Routledge
7. Monemvasia

   A Byzantine City State

   By Haris A. Kalligas

   This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a...

   Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge
8. From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms

   Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened. Presenting the most current work including...

   Published February 28th 2006 by Routledge
9. Animals, Gods and Humans

   Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought

   By Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

   Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals...

   Published February 15th 2006 by Routledge