The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 14: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425-600

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, and the constantly expanding results of archaeological research. A picture emerges of a period of considerable military and political disruption, but also of vibrant intellectual and cultural activity. The volume begins with a series of narrative chapters. These are followed by sections on government and institutions, economy and society, and religion and culture. A section on the provinces and the non-Roman world marks the rise of new and distinct political and cultural entities. This volume, and the CAH, ends in around AD 600, before the Arab conquests shattered for ever what remained of the unity of the Roman world. v. 1, pt. 1. Prolegomena and prehistory, edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, and N.G.L. Hammond. v. 1, pt. 2. Early history of the Middle East, edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd and N.G L. Hammond. v. 2, pt. 1. History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1800-1380 B.C. / edited by I.E.S. Edwards ... [et al.] v. 2, pt. 2. History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1380-1000 B.C., edited by I.E.S. Edwards ... [et al.]. v. 3, pt. 1. The prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, tenth to eighth centuries B.C., edited by John Boardman ... [et al.]. 2d ed. v. 3, pt. 2. The Assyrian and Babylonian empires and other states of the Near East, from the eighth to the sixth centuries, B.C. 2nd ed. v. 3, pt. 3. The expansion of the Greek World, eighth to sixth centuries B.C., edited by John Boardman, N.G.L. Hammond. 2d ed. v. 4. Persia, Greece, and the western Mediterranean, c. 525 to 479 B.C., edited by John Boardman ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 5. The fifth century B.C., edited by D.M. Lewis ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 6. The fourth century B.C., edited by D.M. Lewis ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 7, pt. 1. The Hellenistic world, edited by F.W. Walbank ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 7, pt. 2. The rise of Rome to 220 B.C., edited by F.W. Walbank ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 8. Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C., edited by A.E. Astin ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. v. 9. The last age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C. 2nd ed. v. 10. The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69 v. 11. The High Empire, A.D. 70-192 / edited by Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Dominic Rathbone v. 13. The Late Empire, A.D. 337-425 v. 14. Late antiquity : Empire and successors, A.D. 425-600 / edited by Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Michael Whitby. Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors Volume 11 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers the history of the Roman empire from AD 70 to 192 -- Vespasian to the Antonines. The volume begins with the political and military history of the period. Developments in the structure of the empire are then examined, including the organization and personnel of the central government and province-based institutions and practices. A series of provincial studies follows, and the society, economy and culture of the empire as a whole are reviewed in a group of thematic chapters. On 23 October 425 the emperor Valentinian III was installed as ruler of the western half of the Roman empire.