
ORB Online EncyclopediaLate Antiquity in the Mediterranean
Select bibliography: The Roman Empire and its neighbors
The Roman Empire in the fourth century
Barnes, Timothy D., Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1981).Matthews, John, The Roman Empire of Ammianus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1989).
Matthews, John, Western Aristocracy and Imperial Court A.D. 364-425 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).
Romans and barbarians
Goffart, Walter, Barbarians and Romans: The techniques of accommodation (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1980).Heather, Peter, Goths and Romans, 332-489 (Oxford, 1991).
King, Anthony and Henig, Martin, eds., The Roman West in the Third Century: Contributions from archaeology and history, BAR International Series 109 (Oxford, 1981).
Liebeschutz, J.H.W.G., Bishops and Barbarians: Army, church and state in the age of Arcadius and Chrysostom (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990).
Thompson, E.A., Romans and Barbarians: The decline of the western empire (Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1982).
Wolfram, Herwig, History of the Goths, trans. Thomas J. Dunlop (Berkeley, U. of California Press, 1988).
The Roman Empire in the sixth century
Cameron, Averil, Procopuis and the Sixth Century (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1985).Whitby, M., The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan warfare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
The seventh century
Haldon, J.F., Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The transformation of a culture (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1990).Watt, W. Montgomery, Muhammed's Mecca: History in the Qu'ran (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 1988).