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The Later Roman Empire
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Averil Cameron
Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fourth century, doing full justice to the enormous ...
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Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse
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In these lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley on the issue of how Christianity prevailed in the unfavorable climate of the Roman Empire, Cameron examines the development of intellectual and imaginative Christian discourse during the first to sixth centuries A.D.
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The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430
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Studies of culture, politics and society in the later Roman Empire have become more prolific because of the work of archaeologists, theologians and historical researchers. This book surveys this period in history, detailing recent discoveries and theories proposed.
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The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: Ad 393-565
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The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600 deals with the exciting period commonly known as late antiquity' - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and ...
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Procopius and the Sixth Century
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In this new evaluation of Procopius, Professor Cameron emphasises the essential unity of the three works and, startin with the 'minor' ones, deomstrates their intimate connection with the Wars.
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The Cambridge Ancient History
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Averil Cameron (Editor), Bryan Ward-Perkins (Editor), Michael Whitby (Editor)
With Volume 14 The Cambridge Ancient History concludes its story. This latest volume embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarship which have in recent decades transformed our view of Late Antiquity. In particular, traditional political and social history has been enormously enhanced by integrating the rich evidence of Christian writing, ...
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The Byzantines
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Averil Cameron
This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. It brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the forefront of European history. It focuses on the Byzantine people - their identity, ethnicity, and culture. It explores the importance of Byzantium as a ...
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The Cambridge Ancient History: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337
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Alan K Bowman (Editor), Peter Garnsey (Editor), Averil Cameron (Editor)
This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of the Mediterranean world. It begins with the establishment of the Severan dynasty as a result of civil war. From AD 235 this period of relative ...
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Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-600
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Averil Cameron
"The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600" deals with the period commonly known as "late antiquity" - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman Empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and flourishing ...
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Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond
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Averil Cameron (Editor)
This book presents the first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography - the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent of computer technology it is now possible to gather and store such information in increasingly ...
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Images of Women in Antiquity
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Cameron Averil
The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book diverse roles for and attitudes to women in ancient societies are explored: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses and typically as deranged. The shifting focus is variously economic, social, ...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Papers of the First Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam
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Averil Cameron
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History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History
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Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium
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Averil Cameron
These essays on the history and archaeology of Byzantine Asia Minor from the 4th-14th centuries include regional surveys of the south-west (Lycia and (Pampylia), as well as discussions of specific sites and other monuments. A variety of surviving remains are put into historical context, in order to show that the archaeological record is essential ...
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Keble Past and Present
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Averil Cameron (Editor), Ian W Archer (Editor)
A richly illustrated portrait of a distinctive Oxford College, founded at the peak of the Victorian era, which includes previously unseen archive material.
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Procopius
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Averil Cameron
In this new evaluation of Procopius, Professor Cameron emphasises the essential unity of the three works and, starting with the 'minor' ones, demonstrates their intimate connection with the Wars.
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Papers of the First Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam
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G R King (Editor), Averil Cameron (Editor)
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In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris
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Flavius Cresconius Corippus, Averil Cameron (Editor)
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428 Ad: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
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Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron (Preface by)
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, "428 AD" provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change - as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as ...
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Images of women in antiquity
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Averil Cameron (Editor), Amelia Kuhrt (Editor)
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Eusebius' Life of Constantine
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Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius, Averil Cameron, Stuart Hall
Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical ...
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