From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond

by Averil Cameron

Overview

Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject as well as Cameron’s own development as a historian over many decades. It provides a revealing and important survey of some profound historiographical changes.

Her volume contains fundamental papers and reviews that tell a story in which she has played a leading part. They move from her early days as an ancient historian to her important contribution in the establishment of the field of late antiquity and point to her later work as a Byzantinist, a trajectory rivalled by few other scholars.

The book will be important for scholars and students of the later Roman empire and late antiquity, and for anyone interested in the inheritance of Edward Gibbon, the perennial questions about the end of the Roman empire and its supposed decline, or the emergence of Islam in the early seventh century and its relation to the late antique world. (CS 1113).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032133478
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/2025
Series:	Variorum Collected Studies
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Averil Cameron is the author of two previous Variorum volumes and many books and articles about late antiquity and Byzantium. In her long career she has been professor of Byzantine studies at King’s College London and of Byzantine history at the University of Oxford, where she was also Warden of Keble College from 1994 to 2010. Her most recent books include Byzantine Matters (2014), Dialoguing in Late Antiquity (2014), Arguing It Out (2016) and Byzantine Christianity (2017).

Table of Contents

Introduction: From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond / Gibbon and Justinian (McKitterick and Quinault, eds., Edward Gibbon and Empire, 1997) / Bury, Baynes and Toynbee (Cormack and Jeffreys, eds., Through the Looking Glass, Papers from the Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 2000) / Samuel Dill, the End of the Roman Empire, and the Uses of History (Dill Lecture, Queens University, Belfast, 2016, unpublished) / Introduction (Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne, 2013) / A.H.M. Jones and the End of the Ancient World (Gwynn, ed., A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire, 2008) / Robert Browning (Proceedings of the British Academy 105 (2000) / Thoughts on the Introduction to The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Brown and Testa, eds., Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: The Breaking of a Dialogue (IVth-VIth Century A.D.), Proceedings of the International Conference at the Monastery of Bose, 2011) / Momigliano and Christianity (Cornell and Murray, eds., The Legacy of Arnaldo Momigliano, 2014) / Late Antiquity: The Total View (Past and Present 88 (1980) / Redrawing the Map: Christian Territory After Foucault (Journal of Roman Studies 76 (1986) / Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity (Wimbush and Valantasis, eds., Asceticism, 1995) / On Defining the Holy Man (Howard-Johnston and Hayward, eds., The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 1999) / The Perception of Crisis (In Morfologie sociali e culturali in Europa fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo, 3–9 aprile 1997, 1, Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo 45, 9–34. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo. 1998)