ORB Online EncyclopediaLate Antiquity in the Mediterranean
Select bibliography: Religious, social and economic matters
Religious history
Brown, Peter, The Body and Society: Men, women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity (New York: Columbia U.P., 1988).Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints: Its rise and function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Fox, Robin Lane, Pagans and Christians (London: Viking, 1986).
Markus, Robert, The End of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1990).
Rousseau, Philip, Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1978).
Economic life and the archaeological evidence
Finley, M.I., The Ancient Economy, 2nd ed. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985).
Greene, Kevin, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy (London: Batsford, 1986).
Hodges, Richard and Whitehouse, David, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1983).
Randsborg, Klavs, The First Millenium A.D. in Europe and the Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1990).
Spufford, Peter, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1988).
Social history
Brown, Peter, "Late Antiquity." In A History of Private Life: Volume 1, From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, ed. Paul Veyne, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1987), pp. 235-311.
Davies, Wendy and Fouracre, Paul, The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1986).
Herlihy, David, Opera Muliebria: Women and work in Medieval Europe (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990).
