An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and
diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time
period known as late antiquity.
* Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late
antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD
284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
* Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars
of the era
* Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful
transformation that shaped the modern world
* Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its
connection with economic, social, and political life
* Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities &
Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American
Publishers
