MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY - AD 393-565

'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'.