Historical Tripos Part I, Paper 13 European History, 31 BC–AD 900 SELECT READING LISTS Compiled by Caroline Goodson, Tom Hooper, Michael Humphreys, Rosamond McKitterick, Peter Sarris, and Richard Sowerby Revised July 2019 Table of Contents A: THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE THIRD CENTURY .................................................................................... 3 IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................ 3 FROM THE ‘THIRD-CENTURY CRISIS’ TO THE TETRARCHS ............................................................................... 4 THE ROMAN ECONOMY ............................................................................................................................... 5 IMPERIAL CULT AND ROMAN RELIGION ......................................................................................................... 5 GENDER AND SEXUALITY ............................................................................................................................ 6 SLAVERY AND ROMAN SOCIETY .................................................................................................................... 6 B: LATE ANTIQUITY ....................................................................................................................... 7 FROM CONSTANTINE TO JULIAN................................................................................................................... 7 THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE EMPIRE ....................................................................................................... 7 THE EMERGENCE OF MONASTICISM .............................................................................................................. 9 TOWNS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE ................................................................................................................ 10 C: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES .......................................................................................................... 11 BARBARIAN INVASION AND SETTLEMENT ..................................................................................................... 11 VANDAL AFRICA ......................................................................................................................................... 13 OSTROGOTHIC ITALY ................................................................................................................................. 14 VISIGOTHIC SPAIN ..................................................................................................................................... 15 MEROVINGIAN GAUL AND THE FRANKS ........................................................................................................ 16 BYZANTIUM IN THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN ........................................................................................................ 17 THE WORLD OF EARLY ISLAM ...................................................................................................................... 18 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ................................................................................................................. 19 BYZANTIUM IN THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH CENTURIES .................................................................... 20 THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE ......................................................................................................................... 22 THE VIKINGS............................................................................................................................................. 23 EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGSHIP ........................................................................................................................ 24 EARLY MEDIEVAL QUEENSHIP ..................................................................................................................... 24 LAW AND LEGISLATION .............................................................................................................................. 24 TOWNS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 25 MEN AND WOMEN IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ............................................................................................ 25 THE CHURCH ............................................................................................................................................ 26 The entries given here for each topic offer only very select reading lists as introductions to topics within the paper. Lectures will provide further bibliography on specific subjects, and supervisions will provide more. The Roman Empire 3 A: The Roman Empire to the third century Augustus Sources Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, ed. Alison E. Cooley, in Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Collected Sources: Melvin George Lowe Cooley (ed.) Age of Augustus (London: London Association of Classical Teachers, 2003). Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, Divus Augustus, 26-8, trans. R. Graves in Twelve Caesars, (London: Penguin, 2007). [other translations available as ‘Lives of the Caesars’] Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, I, 1-2, ed. Anthony John Woodman, in Annals (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2004). [among other available translations] Dio Cassius, Historia Romana, LI.1, LIII.2–11, ed. Earnest Cary, in Dio’s Roman History In Nine Volumes, Cary, Earnest (London: William Heinemann, 1914-27). [among other available translations] General reading Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin and Andrew Lintott (eds.), Cambridge ancient history. Vol. X: Augustan Empire, 43 BC–AD 69 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [ch. 3] Diane G. Favro, The urban image of Augustan Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Karl Galinsky, Augustan culture: an interpretive introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). --- Augustus: introduction to the life of an emperor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). [esp. chs. 3, 4 and 8] Anton Powell (ed.), Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus (London: Bristol Classical Press, 1992). D. C. A. Shotter, Augustus Caesar, Lancaster pamphlets (London: Routledge, 1991). [esp. chs. 3 and 6] Colin M. Wells (ed.),The Roman Empire (Cambridge, MA: 1995). [ch. 3] Paul Zanker, The power of images in the Age of Augustus, Jerome lectures 16th ser (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988). Tacitus Judith Ginsburg, Tradition and theme in the Annals of Tacitus (New York: Arno Press, 1981). Christina Shuttleworth Kraus and A. J. Woodman, Latin historians, New surveys in the classics no 27 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Victoria Emma Pagan (ed.) Companion to Tacitus (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Christopher B. R. Pelling, ‘Tacitus and Germanicus’, in Tacitus and the Tacitean tradition, eds. Torrey James Luce and A. J. Woodman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 59-85. Patrick Sinclair, Tacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in Annales 1-6 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995). Bronwyn Williams, ‘Reading Tacitus’ Tiberian Annals’, Ramus 18, 1-2 (2014), 140-66. A. J. Woodman (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Tacitus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Sources Barbara Levick (ed.) The government of the Roman Empire: a sourcebook, rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2000). Robert K. Sherk (ed.) The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). General reading David Braund (ed.) The administration of the Roman Empire (241 BC–AD 193) (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1988). Peter Garnsey and Richard P. Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) [Part I] --- The early principate: Augustus to Trajan Greece & Rome New surveys in the classics no 15 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). The Roman Empire 4 Peter Garnsey and C. R. Whittaker, Imperialism in the ancient world: the Cambridge University research seminar in ancient history Cambridge classical studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). [Chapters by Garnsey and Nutton] Andrew Lintott, Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration Routledge (London: Routledge, 1993). Fergus Millar, ‘The Emperor, The Senate and the Provinces’, Journal of Roman Studies 56, 1-2 (1966), 156-66. --- ‘Empire and City, Augustus to Julian: Obligations, Excuses and Status’, Journal of Roman Studies 73, (1983), 76-96. FROM THE ‘THIRD-CENTURY CRISIS’ TO THE TETRARCHS Sources Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold (eds.), Roman civilization. Vol. II: The Empire. Sourcebooks (New York: Harper & Row, 1966). Olivier Hekster and Nicholas Zair (eds.), Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008). Roger Rees, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004). General reading Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin and Andrew Lintott (eds.), Cambridge ancient history. Vol. X: Augustan Empire, 43 BC–AD 69 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) [chs. 2–3, 5, and 6c–d] Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby (eds.), Cambridge ancient history. Vol. XIV: Late Antiquity. Empires and Successors, AD 425-600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A. H. M. Jones, The later Roman Empire, 284-602; a social economic and administrative survey 2 vols., 1st American (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964). [vol.