Secondary Field in Late Ancient and Byzantine History Reading List
Angold, Michael, The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204: A Political History, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 1997) Barnes, Timothy, Athanasius and Constantius (Cambridge, Mass., 1993) ______, Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, Mass., 1981) Brown, Peter, The World of Late Antiquity (London, 1971) Chadwick, Henry, East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church (Oxford, 2003) Decker, Michael, The Byzantine Art of War (Yardley, 2013) Harper, Kyle, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton, 2017) Hendy, Michael, Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy (Cambridge, 1985) Howard-Johnston, James, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford, 2010) Hussey, Joan, The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (Oxford, 1986) Grubbs, Judith Evans, Law and Family in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 1995) Jones, A. H. M., The Later Roman Empire: A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey (Oxford, 1964) Kaegi, Walter, Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Cambridge, 2007) Kaldellis, Anthony, Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2007) Kazhdan, A. P., and A. W. Epstein, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Berkeley, 1985) Laiou, Angeliki, and Cécile Morrisson, The Byzantine Economy (Cambridge, 2007) Lilie, R.-J., Byzantium and the Crusader States (Oxford, 1993) MacMullen, Ramsay, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (New Haven, 1997) Magdalino, Paul, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos (Cambridge, 1993) Mango, Cyril, Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome (London, 1980) Meyendorff, John, Byzantine Theology (New York, 1974) Nicol, Donald, Byzantium and Venice (Cambridge, 1988) ______, The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1993) Obolensky, Dimitri, The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453 (London, 1971) Ostrogorsky, George, History of the Byzantine State, trans. Joan Hussey, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1968) Treadgold, Warren, A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford, 1997) Williams, Stephen, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (London, 1985)
Revised April 2021