Late Antiquity & Byzantium Books

New and Published Books

1. Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE

   By Daniel Washburn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Ancient Medicine

   2nd Edition

   By Vivian Nutton

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Julian's Gods

   Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate

   By Rowland B. E. Smith

   Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian. Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 September 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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