54 Late Antiquity From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam By Doug Lee edited by Averil Cameron Between the deaths of the Eleven key articles are presented here that together Emperors Julian (363) and give a rounded picture of the most important trends Justinian (565), the Roman in late antique scholarship over the last decades, and Empire underwent provide a coherent context for the emergence Islam. momentous changes. Most A substantial introduction, with a detailed obviously, control of the west bibliography, surveys the present state of the field, was lost to barbarian groups as well as discussing some recent themes in Qur’anic during the fifth century, and and early Islamic scholarship from the point of view although parts were of a late antique historian. Together the essays make recovered by Justinian, the clear the ferment of religious change that was taking empire’s centre of gravity place across the Near East before, during and after shifted irrevocably to the the lifetime of Muhammad. 480p (Ashgate 2013) east, with its focal point now the city of 9781409400707 Hb £130.00 Constantinople. Equally important was the Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the increasing dominance of Christianity not only in Great: A Study of the Edictum Theoderici religious life, but also in politics, society and culture. By Sean D.W. Lafferty By emphasising the resilience of the east during late This book explores the evolution of Roman law and antiquity and the continuing vitality of urban life society in Italy from 493, with the proclamation of and the economy, this volume offers an alternative the Ostrogoth Theoderic the Great as king, until perspective to the traditional paradigm of decline and about 554, when the eastern Emperor Justinian was fall. 320p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2013) 9780748627905 able to re-establish imperial authority in the region. Hb £95.00, 9780748627912 Pb £29.99 It challenges long-held assumptions as to just how Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian peaceful, prosperous and Roman-like Theoderic’s Golden Age Italy really was. Its primary focus is the Edictum By Jonathan Bardill Theoderici, a significant but largely overlooked This book offers a radical reassessment of document that offers valuable historical insights into Constantine as an emperor, a pagan, and a Christian. the complex and sometimes contested social, political It examines in detail a wide variety of evidence, and religious changes that marked Italy’s passage including literature, secular and religious from Antiquity into the Middle Ages. 340p, architectural monuments, coins, sculpture, and (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107028340 Hb £65.00 other works of art. Setting the emperor in the Four Emperors and an Architect: How Robert context of the kings and emperors who preceded Adam Rediscovered the Tetrarchy him, Jonathan Bardill shows how Constantine’s By Alicia Salter propagandists exploited the traditional themes and The eighteenth century saw an explosion of interest imagery of rulership to portray him as having been in the architecture of elected by the supreme solar God to save his people ancient Rome, spawning and inaugurate a brilliant golden age. The author the phenomenon of the argues that the cultivation of this image made it Grand Tour. The palace of possible for Constantine to reconcile the long- Diocletian at Split, however, standing tradition of imperial divinity with his remained unappreciated monotheistic faith by assimilating himself to Christ. until its 1757 rediscovery by 440p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521764230 the young British architect, Hb £65.00 Robert Adam. This The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe superbly illustrated volume By Hyun Jin Kim narrates Adam’s pioneering This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were work and the influence it far from ‘backward’ and that the image of the had on his own primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already architectural practice, interweaving his story with possessed a highly sophisticated political culture that of Diocletian himself and his colleagues in while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive power, the tetrarchs. Above all Alicia Salter explores recipients of advanced culture from the West, they their architecture, showing how it was used to passed on important elements of Central Eurasian symbolise their rule, and describing in detail not only culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped the palace at Split, but work by the other tetrarchs create. Their expansion also marked the beginning in their capitals at Milan, Trier, Nicomedia and of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power Thessalonica, as well as at Rome itself. 196p, col illus by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. (Lexicon 2013) 9780957571907 Pb £20.00 The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution. 345p (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107009066 Hb £60.00 Late Antiquity 55 Spatantikes Kleidungszubehor aus Nordafrika Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Teil I by Christoph Eger Using Images in Late Antiquity This study is the first to give a comprehensive edited by Stine Birk, Troels Myrup Kristensen and account of extant dress accessories, especially Birte Poulsen brooches and belt buckles, from late antique North Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses Africa. In this first of two volumes, the finds dating of images during the first millennium AD. They from the final period of Roman rule and the Vandal bring together an international group of scholars period following it are presented, most of which are who situate the period’s visual practices within their not previously published. In addition to aspects of political, religious, and social contexts. The the chronology and geographical distribution of contributors present a diverse range of evidence, these finds, the study focuses on questions about including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from the wearers and their cultural identity. German text. all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the 125p, 96 col pls (Reichert Verlag 2012) 9783895009129 west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from Hb £90.00 the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy through monumental epigraphy, Constantine’s and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier By Anna Leone monuments, late antique collections of Classical This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan statuary, and city personifications in mosaics to the religious tradition and the dismantling of its material topic of civic prosperity during the Theodosian form in North Africa from the 4th to the 6th centuries period and dynastic representation during the AD. Leone considers how urban communities Umayyad dynasty. Together they provide new changed, why some traditions were lost and some insights into the central role of visual culture in the others continued, and whether these carried the constitution of late antique societies. 288p b/w and same value and meaning upon doing so. She col illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972617 Hb £45.00 explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan ***Only £34.00 until publication*** monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues. 319p, b/w illus (Oxford Neighbours and Successors of Rome: Traditions UP 2013) 9780199570928 Hb £70.00 of glass production and use in Europe and the Ostia in Late Antiquity Middle East in the later 1st millennium AD By Douglas Boin edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Recent investigations have revealed that life in Ostia Jackson did not end with a bang but with a whimper. Only Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe on the cusp of the Middle Ages did the town’s and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome residents entrench themselves in a smaller settlement investigates developments in the production of glass outside the walls. This monograph, the first to treat and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as the Late Antique period, tackles the dynamics of this part of a wider material culture in Europe and the transformative time. Drawing on new archaeological Near East around the later first millennium AD. research, including the author’s own, and Though highlighting and solidifying chronology, incorporating both material and textual sources, it patterns of distribution, and typology, the primary presents a social history of the town from the third aims of the collection are to present a new through the ninth century. 308p (Cambridge UP 2013) methodology that emphasises regional workshops, 9781107024014 Hb £65.00 scientific data, and the wider trade culture. This methodology embraces a shift in conceptual Mosaici Tardoantichi dell’isola di Cos: Scavi approach to the study of glass by explaining italiani 1912–1945 typological change through the existence of a By Lorella Maria De Matteis thriving supra-national commercial network that This monograph examines the mosaic floors of the responded to market demands and combines the Early Christian basilicas of Kos brought to light by results of a range of new scientific techniques into a the Italian Archaeological School of Athens during framework that stresses co-dependence and the military occupation. It aims to better define similarities between the various sites considered. aspects of the Late Antiquity Koan decorative 352p col pls (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782973973 Hb repertoire and its ties with the ealier imperial £48.00 examples; to understand the artisans working methodology and to identify distinct workshops; to find areas of diffusion of the decorative repertoire ***Only £36.00 until publication*** 180p, 69 b/w & col pls (BAR 2515, Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311333 Pb £45.00 56 Late Antiquity Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to Forthcoming from Aris & Phillips Early Islam Edited by Wendy Mayer & Bronwen Neil Augustine: De Civitate Dei X The essays in this volume engage a variety of inter- edited by P.G.