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Course A107: From Late Antiquity to Byzantium

The world of cities

General

R. Hodges and D. Whitehouse, Mahommed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe (1983), pb
C. Mango, Byzantium. The Empire of New Rome, ch. 3
Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, chap. 7
S. Barnish, 'The transformation of classical cities and the Pirenne debate', Journal of Roman Archaeology 2 (1989), 385-400
M. Whittow, 'Ruling the late Roman and early Byzantine city: a continuous history', Past and Present 129 (1990), 3-29
J. Rich, ed., The City in Late Antiquity (London, 1992) esp. chap. by W. Liebeschuetz
Luke Lavan ed., Recent research in late-antique urbanism (Portsmouth, R.I. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001)
J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz, The decline and fall of the Roman city (Oxford, 2001)
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford, 2001)
W. Bowden, L.Lavan and C. Machado edd., Recent research on the late antique Countryside (Leiden, 2004)
Neil Christie ed., Landscapes of change : rural evolutions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (Aldershot, 2004).

W. Bowden et all., edd. Social and political life in late Antiquity (Leuven, 2006)
Luke Lavan, Lale Özgenel, and Alexander Sarantis edd., Housing in late antiquity : from palaces to shops (Leuven, 2007)
L. Laven et al. edd., Objects in context, objects in use : material spatiality in late antiquity (Leuven, 2007)

Asia Minor

C. Foss,
'The Persians in Asia Minor and the end of antiquity', English Historical Review 90 (1975), 721-47
'Archaeology and the "Twenty Cities" of Byzantine Asia', AJA 81 (1977), 469-86
'Late Antique and Byzantine Ankara', DOP 31 (1977), 29-87
All these are reprinted in History and Archaeology of Byzantine Asia Minor (London, 1990)
Byzantine and Turkish Sardis (Cambridge, Mass., 1976)
Ephesus after Antiquity (Cambridge, 1979)
'The Lycian coast in the Byzantine age', DOP 48 (1994), 1-52

S. Mitchell, Anatolia. Land men and gods in Asia Minor (Oxford, 1993) esp. vol. II

J. Russell, 'Transformation in early Byzantine life: the contributions and limitations of archaeological evidence', 17th International Byzantine Congress, major papers (New York, 1986), 137-154.

R. M. Harrison, ed. W. Young, Mountain and plain from the Lycian coast to the Phrygian plateau in thelate Roman and early Byzantine period (Ann Arbor, 2001).

C. Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, electronic second edition (2004)

Greece

A. Frantz, Late Antiquity: A.D. 267-700: Athenian Agora: results of excavations (Princeton 1989)

Castren, P., ed., Post-Herulian Athens , Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens 1 (Athens, 1994)

Syria/Palestine

H. Kennedy, 'The last century of Byzantine Syria', Byzantinische Forschungen 10 (1985)

C. Foss 'Syria in Transition (550-750 A.D.): An Archaeological Approach', DOP 51 (1997)

J. H. Humphrey ed. The Roman and Byzantine Near East : late-antique Petra, Nile Festival Building at Sepphoris, Deir Qalʻa Monastery, Khirbet Qana village and pilgrim site, ʻAin-ʻArrub hiding complex and other studies (Portsmouth R.I. 2002)

Linda Jones Hall , Roman Berytus : Beirut in late antiquity (London, 2004)

G. Bowersock, Mosaics as history : the Near East from late antiquity to early Islam (Harvard, 2006)

H. Sivan, Palestine in late antiquity (Oxford, 2008)

Cyprus

E. Chrysos, 'Cyprus in Early Byzantine times', The Sweet Land of Cyprus: Papers given at the 25 Jubilee Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham 1991 (Nicosia, 1993), 3-14

Egypt

R. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, 1993) see review in BMCR

Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity (Baltimore, 1997)

Richard Alston, The city in Roman and Byzantine Egypt ( London, 2002)

'Late Antique Egypt' by T. Gagos and P. van Minnen (1994)

Africa

A.H. Merrills ed. Vandals, Romans and Berbers : new perspectives on late antique North Africa (Ashgate, 2004).

France

S. T. Loseby, Marseille: a late antique success story?', JRS 82 (1992), 165-85

Britain

R. Collins, J. Gerrard edd., Debating late antiquity in Britain AD 300-700 (Oxford, Archaeopress, 2004).

Italy

B. Ward-Perkins, From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1984)
M. Humphries, Communities of the blessed: social environment and religious change in northern Italy, AD 200-400 (Oxford, 1999)

Riccardo Francovich & Richard Hodges , Villa to village : the transformation of the Roman countryside in Italy, c. 400-1000 (London, 2003)

and online

Balkans

A. Dunn, 'The transition from polis to kastron in the Balkans', BMGS 18 (1994), 60-80

A. Poulter, The Roman, Late Roman and Early Byzantine city of Nicopolis ad Istrum: the British excavations 1985-1992, Monograph of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1995

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