East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion
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East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion
(Impact of empire, v. 20)
Brill, c2015
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Rubbish disposal in Greek and Roman cities
- Was there a crisis of the third century?
- Transformation and decline : are the two really incompatible?
- Unsustainable development : the origin of ruined landscapes in the Roman Empire
- Warlords and landlords
- The debate about the ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes
- Making a Gothic history : does the Getica of Jordanes preserve genuinely Gothic traditions?
- Why did Jordanes write the Getica?
- Habitus Barbarus : did Barbarians look different from Romans?
- Barbarians and taxes
- Violence in the Barbarian successor kingdoms
- Goths and Romans in the Leges Visigothorum
- The impact of the imposition of Roman rule on northern Syria
- Nomads, phylarchs and settlement in Syria and Palestine
- Late late antiquity (6th and 7th centuries) in the cities of the Roman Near East
- Arab tribesmen and desert frontiers in late antique Syria
- Julian's hymn to the Mother of the Gods : the revival and justification of traditional religion
- The view from Antioch : from Libanius via John Chrysostom to John Malalas and beyond
- From Antioch to Piazza Armerina and back again
- Theodoret's Graecarum affectionum curatio, defending Christianity in Christian Syria
- The school of Antioch and its opponents
- The lower Danube region under pressure : from Valens to Heraclius
Description and Table of Contents
Description
East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs.
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