Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His work concerns the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East.
The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts.
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unbelievable contempt for Roman military power and civil admin., almost celebrating the fall of the Empire as "making way for" the Catholic Church and the barbarians, Europe's future masters. Violently disagree with the book's bias.
评分unbelievable contempt for Roman military power and civil admin., almost celebrating the fall of the Empire as "making way for" the Catholic Church and the barbarians, Europe's future masters. Violently disagree with the book's bias.
评分Remains an engaging introduction 40 years after its first publication. But needs to be read with constant vigilance.
评分very insightful.
评分Remains an engaging introduction 40 years after its first publication. But needs to be read with constant vigilance.
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