List of Illustrations

Maps

1	The world ca.350: the Roman and Sasanian empires
2	The territories of the Roman empire
3	Western Europe
4	Western Europe, excluding the British Isles
5	The Middle East, from Constantinople to Iran
6	Christianity in Asia
7	The British Isles and the North Sea
8	A new world, 800: the Carolingian, Byzantine, and Abbasid empires
9	Continental Europe
10	The Atlantic world

Plates (between pages 304 and 305)

1	A Frankish queen teaches her sons how to use the throwing-axe
2	Constantine, the first Christian emperor
3	The interior of Santa Sabina in Rome
4	The apse mosaic of the sixth-century basilica at Poreč
5	The church of Sant’Agnese
6	The sixth-century dome above the altar in San Vitale, Ravenna
7	The mosaic decoration in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
8	Eighth-century icon of the Crucifixion of Christ
9	A seventh-century ornament from Kent
10	A “carpet page” of the Lindisfarne Gospels
11	Seventh-century icon showing Christ, the Virgin, and two saints
12	Merovingian relic-shrine
13	Ninth-century fresco: a lay donor
14	Ninth-century fresco: a clerical donor
15	Drawing in a collection of barbarian law codes: the Christian people agree to their laws
16	The death of Boniface, from a Mass-book
17	Ninth-century Carolingian illustration showing an assembly of the Church