CONTENTS

List of figures

List of maps

Acknowledgements

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Abbreviations

Introduction

1  Constantinople and the eastern empire

2  The empire and the barbarians

3  Christianization and its challenges

4  Late Roman society and economy

5  Justinian and reconquest

6  Late antique culture and private life

7  Urban change and the late antique countryside

8  The eastern Mediterranean – a region in ferment

9  A changed world

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index