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War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.): Current Perspectives: 8
Author(s): Alexander Sarantis (Editor), Neil Christie
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 23 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 1120 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004252576
- ISBN-13: 9789004252578
Book Description
Contributors are Susannah Belcher, Neil Christie, Ian Colvin, John Conyard, Jon Coulston, Jim Crow, Florin Curta, Hugh Elton, James Howard-Johnston, Jordi Galbany, Jordi Guàrdia, John Haldon, Michel Kazanski, Maria Kouroumali, Michael Kulikowski, Christopher Lillington-Martin, Marta Maragall, Oriol Mercadal, Jordi Nadal, Oriol Olesti, Alexander Sarantis, Conor Whately, Michael Whitby and John Wilkes.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Isaías Arrayás Morales (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), RUHM, Vol. 5/10/ 2016, pp. 375 – 445
“…The papers present an abundance of evidence and debate which will remain for many years on the bookshelves of scholars interested in the late Roman period and especially military affairs. The editors are to be congratulated for the result of what must have been an onerous task but one which has provided a key resource for all students of Late Antiquity.”
Andrew Poulter (University of Nottingham),
“Overall, the editors and contributors should be proud of this compilation, which illustrates the enormous mass of current scholarship.”
Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland),
“These volumes are the latest addition to the invaluable Late Antique Archaeology series which has done much to strengthen late antique archaeology’s identity as a field in its own right…At over a thousand pages, this is a substantial work, and a sampling of the bibliographic essays, running to more than 250 pages, suggests that they will be a valuable resource…Overall, this is a very useful publication, both for its bibliographical surveys and for a good number of stimulating research papers.”
A.D. Lee (University of Nottingham),
“…un ouvrage utile et de grande qualité. Il donne une première lumière sur tous les aspects de la guerre durant l’Antiquité tardive et il permet de reprendre tous les aspects du sujet grâce aux listes de sources et de bibliographie, en général heureusement commentées. Dorénavant, personne ne pourra aborder l’histoire militaire de cette période sans commencer par voir ce qu’il apporte…”
Yann Le Bohec, in
“…these two volumes will undoubtedly interest all those seeking to learn more about war and warfare during Late Antiquity, and I doubt that there is anyone who will not learn something new by reading the set…”
David Woods,
About the Author
Neil Christie, Ph.D. (1985), University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, is Reader in Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of various works on Late Roman and Early Medieval Italy, a recent monograph on The Fall of the Western Roman Empire, and editor and co-editor to works on late antique towns and landscapes.
