Maas Michael Books
Books di Maas Michael editi da Routledge
Readings in Late Antiquity
Maas Michael
edizioni ROUTLEDGE , 2010
Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic"...
John Lydus and the Roman Past
Maas Michael
edizioni Routledge collana Routledge (Paperback) , 2013
John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates how the past could...