The Cambridge companion to the Age of Attila / Michael Maas, Rice University.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to the ancient world.
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 495 pages : illustrations, maps. |
| Variant Title: |
Age of Attila. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part I. The Roman Empire
- Reversals of fortune: an overview of the Age of Attila / Michael Maas
- Government and mechanisms of control, east and west / Geoffrey Greatrex
- Urban and rural economies in the Age of Attila / Peter Sarris
- Mediterranean cities in the fifth century: elites, christianizing, and the barbarian influx / Kenneth G. Holum
- Big cities and the dynamics of the Mediterranean during the fifth century / Raymond Van Dam
- Dynasty and aristocracy in the fifth century / Brian Croke
- Military developments in the fifth century / Hugh Elton
- Law and legal culture in the Age of Attila / Caroline Humfress
- Romanness in the Age of Attila / Jonathan P. Conant
- Part II. Attila and the world around Rome
- The steppe world and the rise of the Huns / Étienne de la Vaissière
- Neither conquest nor settlement: Attila's empire and its impact / Christopher Kelly
- The huns and barbarian Europe / Peter Heather
- Captivity among the barbarians and its impact on the fate of the Roman Empire / Noel Lenski
- Migrations, ethnic groups, and state building / Walter Pohl
- Kingdoms of north Africa / Andy Merrills
- The reinvention of Iran: the Sasanian Empire and the huns / Richard Payne
- Part III. Religious and cultural transformation
- Ascetics and monastics in the early fifth century / Susanna Elm
- Religious doctrine and ecclesiastical change in the time of Leo the Great / Susan Wessel
- Christian sermons against pagans: the evidence from Augustine's sermons on the new year and on the sack of Rome in 410 / Michele Renee Salzman
- Mediterranean jews in a christianizing empire / Joseph E. Sanzo and Ra'anan Boustan
- Ordering intellectual life / Edward Watts
- Real and imagined geography / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.