The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750 (Library of world civilization) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750 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."
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 30 April 1989
- Format: Paperback 216 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780393958034 ISBN 10: 0393958035
- Sales rank: 331,395
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Full description for The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750
These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on 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.
