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Late antiquity
a guide to the postclassical world
By Bowersock, G. W. & Brown, Peter G. & Grabar, Oleg
- ISBN
- 978-0-67451-173-6
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. ; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1999
The editors of this work, all Princeton scholars, have accomplished a worthy goal in broadening our understanding of a significant period of history; through inclusion of the early expansion of Islam, they have extended late antiquity by some 150 years. Their new time line begins around 250 C.E., when the Roman Empire was in crisis and the Sassanians, a militant new d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
