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The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600
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The Mediterranean World in Late
Antiquity AD 395–600
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395–600 deals with the exciting
period commonly known as ‘late antiquity’ – the fifth and sixth centuries.
The Roman empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic
kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman rule from Constantinople,
maintained a dense population and flourishing urban culture until the
Persian and Arab invasions of the early seventh century.
Averil Cameron places her emphasis on the material and literary evidence
for cultural change and offers a new and original challenge to traditional
assumptions of ‘decline and fall’ and ‘the end of antiquity’. The book
draws on the recent spate of scholarship on this period to discuss in detail
such controversial issues as the effectiveness of the late Roman army, the
late antique city and the nature of economic exchange and cultural life.
With its extensive annotation, it provides a lively, and often critical
introduction to earlier approaches to the period, from Edward Gibbon’s
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the present day.
No existing book in English provides so detailed or up-to-date an
introduction to the history of both halves of the empire in this crucial
period, or discusses existing views in such a challenging way. Averil Cameron
is a leading specialist on late antiquity, having written about the period
and taught it for many years. This book has much to say to historians of all
periods. It will be particularly welcomed by teachers and students of both
ancient and medieval history.
Averil Cameron is warden of Keble College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the
British Academy.
ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD
General Editor: Fergus Millar
THE GREEK WORLD 479–323 BC
Simon Hornblower
THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY AD 395–600
Averil Cameron
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST VOLUMES I AND II
Amélie Kuhrt
THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
ITALY FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE PUNIC WARS
( c. 1000–264 BC )
Tim Cornell
The Mediterranean World in
Late Antiquity AD 395–600
Averil Cameron
London and New York
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F irst published 1993
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 1993 Averil Cameron
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cameron, Averil.
The Mediterranean world in late antiquity AD 395–600 / by Averil Cameron.
p. cm. – (Routledge history of the ancient world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Mediterranean Region–Civilization. 2. Romans–Mediterranean Region.
I. Title. II. Series.
DE71.C25 1993
909'.09822–dc20 92–34600
ISBN 0–415–01421–2 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-13420-6 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-17723-1 (Glassbook Format)

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