Late antiquity
Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.[1] The popularisation of this periodization in English has generally been credited to historian Peter Brown, who proposed a period between 150–750 AD.[2] The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity defines it as "the period between approximately 250 and 750 AD".[3] Precise boundaries for the period are a continuing matter of debate. In the West, its end was earlier, with the start of the Early Middle Ages typically placed in the 6th century, or even earlier on the edges of the Western Roman Empire.
Byzantine Empire
Peter Brown
Henri Pirenne
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Early Middle Ages
Migration Period
Roman–Persian Wars
Church of the priest Félix and baptistry of Kélibia
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, NLB, London, 1974.
The World of Late Antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad (CE 150–750), Thames and Hudson, 1989, ISBN 0-393-95803-5
Peter Brown
Peter Brown, Authority and the Sacred : Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World, Routledge, 1997, 0-521-59557-6
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Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200–1000 CE, Blackwell, 2003, 0-631-22138-7
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Henning Börm, Westrom. Von Honorius bis Justinian, 2nd ed., , 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-023276-1. (Review in English).
Kohlhammer Verlag
The Later Roman Empire: CE 284–430, Harvard University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-674-51194-8
Averil Cameron
Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity CE 395–700, Routledge, 2011, 0-415-01421-2
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Averil Cameron et al. (editors), The Cambridge Ancient History, vols. 12–14, Cambridge University Press 1997ff.
Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-954620-6
Gilian Clark
John Curran, Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century, Clarendon Press, 2000.
Alexander Demandt, Die Spätantike, 2nd ed., Beck, 2007
Peter Dinzelbacher and Werner Heinz, Europa in der Spätantike, Primus, 2007.
Mateusz Fafinski, and Jakob Riemenschneider. . Elements in Late Antique Religion 2. Cambridge: Camabridge University Press, 2023.
Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Fabio Gasti, , Pavia University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-88-96764-09-1.
Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina
Tomas Hägg (ed.) "SO Debate: The World of Late Antiquity revisited," in Symbolae Osloenses (72), 1997.
Scott F. Johnson ed., The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 2012, 978-0-19-533693-1
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Arnold H.M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire, 284–602; a social, economic and administrative survey, vols. I, II, University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.
(1977). Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd–7th century. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-11154-8.
Kitzinger, Ernst
Rome in Late Antiquity: CE 313–604, Routledge, 2001.
Bertrand Lançon
Noel Lenski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
and Dominic Montserrat (eds.), From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views, A Source History, Routledge, 1996.
Samuel N.C. Lieu
Josef Lössl and Nicholas J. Baker-Brian (eds.), A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity, Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Robert Markus, The end of Ancient Christianity, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Christianizing the Roman Empire C.E. 100–400, Yale University Press, 1984.
Ramsay MacMullen
Stephen Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire. CE 284–641, 2nd ed., Blackwell, 2015.
Michael Rostovtzeff (rev. P. Fraser), The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1979.
Johannes Wienand (ed.), Contested Monarchy. Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century CE, Oxford University Press, 2015.
Gasper, Giles (2024). "On the Six Days of Creation: The Hexaemeral Tradition". In Goroncy, Jason (ed.). T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 176–190.
a Catholic website with English translations of the Early Fathers of the Church.
New Advent – The Fathers of the Church
a collaborative forum of Princeton and Stanford to make the latest scholarship on the field available in advance of final publication.
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
Archived 2005-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, from the University of Pennsylvania
Worlds of Late Antiquity
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art