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History Reading list1. Research placement

General material about being a researcher

Grix, Jonathan., Information skills : finding and using the right resources

(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Hunt, Andy, Your research project : how to manage it (London: Routledge, 2005)

Repko, Allen F., Interdisciplinary research : process and theory (Los Angeles ;

London : Sage, c2008)

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Resources for workshops

Week 2: Blogging, reflection and social media

Part 1 of Williams, Kate , Mary Woolliams and Jane Spiro, Reflective writing

(Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Available as an Online Course Reading in

the VLE

or

Chapter 5 of Cottrell, Stella and Neil Morris, Study skills connected : usingtechnology to support your studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE

Week 5: Being a researcher: Responsibilities and Ethics

Before the workshop, please read through the material about research ethics on the

University's Research and Innovation Service.

See also Oliver, Paul, The student's guide to research ethics (Maidenhead : Open

University Press, 2003)

2. Empire and aftermath

Required Readings for Lectures

There will be chapter-length set readings for each lecture, which will be made available

electronically. You are expected to read these before the lecture, and your tutors will assume

knowledge of them in preparing the weekly tutorials. For 2015/16 these readings are as

follows:

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Week 1. Michael Peachin, 'Rome the Superpower 96–235 CE', in A companion to the Roman

Empire , ed. by David S. Potter (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp.126-152: available as e-book

Week 2. Alaric Watson, Aurelian and the third century (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 1-20:

available as e-book

Week 3. Alan K. Bowman, ‘Diocletian and the First Tetrarchy, A. D. 284-305’ and Averil

Cameron, ‘The Reign of Constantine, A. D. 306-337’, in The Cambridge ancient history.

Vol.12, The crisis of empire A.D. 193-337 , edd. Alan K. Bowman, Averil Cameron and Peter

Garnsey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 67-109 Available as an Online

Course Reading in the VLE : on VLE in Week 3 folder

Week 4. Peter R. L. Brown, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity, 1971-

1997', Journal of Early Christian Studies , 6 (1998), 353-376: available as electronic journal

article

Week 5. Michael Maas, 'Barbarians: Problems and Approaches', in The Oxford handbook oflate antiquity , ed. Scott Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 60-91:

available as e-book.

Week 6. Guy Halsall, 'Movers and Shakers: The Barbarians and the Fall of Rome', Early

medieval Europe. , 8 (1999), 131-145, repr. in From Roman provinces to medieval kingdoms ,

ed. Thomas F. X. Noble (Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006), pp. 277-

291: original available as electronic journal article

Week 7. Stephen Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284-641 (Oxford:

Blackwells, 2007), pp. 191-224: available as e-book

Week 8. Michael Maas, 'Roman Questions, Byzantine Answers: Contours of the Age of

Justinian', in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian , ed. Maas (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 3-27: available as e-book

Week 9. James Howard-Johnston, 'The Two Great Powers in Late Antiquity: A Comparison',

in The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East : papers of the First Workshop on Late

Antiquity and Early Islam. , edd. Averil Cameron, Lawrence Conrad and Geoffrey King, 3

vols (Princeton: Darwin, 1992), III, pp. 157-226 , repr. in Howard-Johnston, East Rome,

Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity: Historiographical and Historical Studies

(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), I

Week 10. Mark Whittow, The Making of Orthodox Byzantium 600-1025 (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1996), pp. 69-95 Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE : on

VLE in Week 10 folder

Week 11. Paolo Delogu, 'Reading Pirenne Again', in The sixth century : production,

distribution, and demand , edd. Richard Hodges and Willam Bowden (Leiden: Brill, 1998),

pp. 15-40 Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE : on VLE in Week 11 folder

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General Reading List

http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Aurelian+and+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Crisis+of+Empire%2C+A.D.+193-337&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Crisis+of+Empire%2C+A.D.+193-337&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Crisis+of+Empire%2C+A.D.+193-337&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830908-dt-content-rid-6876786_4/xid-6876786_4https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830908-dt-content-rid-6876786_4/xid-6876786_4https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830908-dt-content-rid-6876786_4/xid-6876786_4http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2659569~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2659569~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1628757~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1628757~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?From+Roman+Provinces+to+Medieval+Kingdoms&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?From+Roman+Provinces+to+Medieval+Kingdoms&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+History+of+the+Later+Roman+Empire+AD+284-641&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+History+of+the+Later+Roman+Empire+AD+284-641&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cambridge+Companion+to+the+Age+of+Justinian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cambridge+Companion+to+the+Age+of+Justinian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Byzantine+and+Early+Islamic+Near+East&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Byzantine+and+Early+Islamic+Near+East&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Byzantine+and+Early+Islamic+Near+East&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Making+of+Orthodox+Byzantium+600-1025&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830900-dt-content-rid-6876784_4/xid-6876784_4https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830900-dt-content-rid-6876784_4/xid-6876784_4http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century.+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century.+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830903-dt-content-rid-6876789_4/xid-6876789_4https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830903-dt-content-rid-6876789_4/xid-6876789_4http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/broker/index.php?bbModuleId=201516_27344_HIST1045&bbListId=_3832398_1&sess=201516#masthttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+Companion+to+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Aurelian+and+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Crisis+of+Empire%2C+A.D.+193-337&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Crisis+of+Empire%2C+A.D.+193-337&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830908-dt-content-rid-6876786_4/xid-6876786_4https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830908-dt-content-rid-6876786_4/xid-6876786_4http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2659569~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1628757~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1628757~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?From+Roman+Provinces+to+Medieval+Kingdoms&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+History+of+the+Later+Roman+Empire+AD+284-641&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cambridge+Companion+to+the+Age+of+Justinian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Byzantine+and+Early+Islamic+Near+East&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Byzantine+and+Early+Islamic+Near+East&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Making+of+Orthodox+Byzantium+600-1025&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830900-dt-content-rid-6876784_4/xid-6876784_4http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century.+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century.+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6https://vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-3830903-dt-content-rid-6876789_4/xid-6876789_4http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/broker/index.php?bbModuleId=201516_27344_HIST1045&bbListId=_3832398_1&sess=201516#mast


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Secondary Surveys (arranged alphabetically by author surname)

A. A. Bandow, ‘The Late Antique Economy: approaches, methods, conceptual issues’, Late

Antique Archaeology 10 (2013), pp. 15-40 - Available online:

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340025?

crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf

Peter R. L. Brown, The World of Late Antiquity (London: Thames and Hudson, 1971)

Peter R. L. Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

1978)

Peter R. L. Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996,

2nd. edn 2002)

Peter R. L. Brown, Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of

Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)

Averil Cameron, The later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (London: Fontana, 1993, 2nd edn.

2012)

Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean world in late antiquity AD 375-600 (London: Routledge,

1993, 2nd edn. 2012)

Roger Collins, Early medieval Europe 300-1000 (London: Longman, 1991, 2nd edn. 1997,

3rd edn. 2010)

Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller, The Roman Empire : economy, society and culture (Berkeley: University of California, 1987)

J. K. Knight, The end of antiquity : archaeology, society and religion AD 235-700 (Stroud:

Tempus, 1999)

Stephen Mitchell, A A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 : the transformation of

the ancient world (Oxford: Blackwells, 2007)

Michael McCormick, The origins of the European economy : communications and

commerce, c.700-c.900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Peter Sarris, Empires of faith : the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam, 500-700 (Oxford: Oxford


Colin Wells, The Roman Empire , 2nd edn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

1992)

Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Chris Wickham, The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 (London:

Allen Lane, 2009)

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340025?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdfhttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340025?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdfhttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+World+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+World+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Making+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Making+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Rise+of+Western+Christendom&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Through+the+Eye+of+a+Needle%3A+Wealth%2C+the+Fall+of+Rome%2C+and+the+Making+of+Christianity+in+the+West%2C+350-550+AD&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Through+the+Eye+of+a+Needle%3A+Wealth%2C+the+Fall+of+Rome%2C+and+the+Making+of+Christianity+in+the+West%2C+350-550+AD&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1351599&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1351599&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Mediterranean+world+in+late+antiquity+AD+375-600&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Early+Medieval+Europe%2C+300-1000&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+Empire%3A+Economy%2C+Society+and+Culture&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+Empire%3A+Economy%2C+Society+and+Culture&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+End+of+Antiquity%3A+Archaeology%2C+Society+and+Religion+AD+235-700&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+End+of+Antiquity%3A+Archaeology%2C+Society+and+Religion+AD+235-700&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+End+of+Antiquity%3A+Archaeology%2C+Society+and+Religion+AD+235-700&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+history+of+the+later+Roman+Empire%2C+AD+284-641+%3A+the+transformation+of+the+ancient+world&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+history+of+the+later+Roman+Empire%2C+AD+284-641+%3A+the+transformation+of+the+ancient+world&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+history+of+the+later+Roman+Empire%2C+AD+284-641+%3A+the+transformation+of+the+ancient+world&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Origins+of+the+European+Economy%3A+Communications+and+Commerce&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Origins+of+the+European+Economy%3A+Communications+and+Commerce&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Origins+of+the+European+Economy%3A+Communications+and+Commerce&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Empires+of+Faith%3A+The+Fall+of+Rome+to+the+Rise+of+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Empires+of+Faith%3A+The+Fall+of+Rome+to+the+Rise+of+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=wells&title=The+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=wells&title=The+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Framing+the+Early+Middle+Ages%3A+Europe+and+the+Mediterranean+400-800&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Framing+the+Early+Middle+Ages%3A+Europe+and+the+Mediterranean+400-800&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Inheritance+of+Rome%3A+A+History+of+Europe+from+400+to+1000&searchscope=6http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340025?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdfhttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340025?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdfhttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+World+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Making+of+Late+Antiquity&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Rise+of+Western+Christendom&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Through+the+Eye+of+a+Needle%3A+Wealth%2C+the+Fall+of+Rome%2C+and+the+Making+of+Christianity+in+the+West%2C+350-550+AD&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Through+the+Eye+of+a+Needle%3A+Wealth%2C+the+Fall+of+Rome%2C+and+the+Making+of+Christianity+in+the+West%2C+350-550+AD&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1351599&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Mediterranean+world+in+late+antiquity+AD+375-600&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Early+Medieval+Europe%2C+300-1000&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+Empire%3A+Economy%2C+Society+and+Culture&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+End+of+Antiquity%3A+Archaeology%2C+Society+and+Religion+AD+235-700&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+history+of+the+later+Roman+Empire%2C+AD+284-641+%3A+the+transformation+of+the+ancient+world&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?A+history+of+the+later+Roman+Empire%2C+AD+284-641+%3A+the+transformation+of+the+ancient+world&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Origins+of+the+European+Economy%3A+Communications+and+Commerce&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Origins+of+the+European+Economy%3A+Communications+and+Commerce&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Empires+of+Faith%3A+The+Fall+of+Rome+to+the+Rise+of+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=wells&title=The+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Framing+the+Early+Middle+Ages%3A+Europe+and+the+Mediterranean+400-800&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Inheritance+of+Rome%3A+A+History+of+Europe+from+400+to+1000&searchscope=6


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Primary Sources

Many of the most important primary sources are available in translation, but a useful

compendium is:

Michael Maas (ed./trans.), Readings in Late Antiquity : A Sourcebook (London: Routledge,

2000)

Cambridge Histories

If in doubt, resort can always be made to the Cambridge Ancient History and the New

Cambridge Medieval History , which are modern part-works with essays by many experts on

various matters:

Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey and Dominic Rathbone (edd.), The Cambridge ancient

history. Vol. 11, The high Empire, A.D. 70-192 , 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2000)

Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey and Averil Cameron (edd.), The Cambridge ancient history.

Vol.12, The crisis of empire A.D. 193-337 , 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2005)

Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey (edd.) The Cambridge ancient history. Vol.13, The late

empire, A.D. 337-425 , 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby (edd.), The Cambridge ancient

history. Vol. 14, Late antiquity : empire and successors, AD 425-600 , 2nd edn. (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Paul Fouracre (ed.), The new Cambridge medieval history. Vol. 1, c.500-c.700 (Cambridge:


And see also:

Thomas F. X. Noble and Julia M. H. Smith (edd.), The Cambridge History of Christianity,volume 1: Early medieval Christianities, c.600--c.1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2008)

Web-Sites and On-Line Resources

There are plenty of relevant web-sites. Lots of articles can be found on Academia.edu,

http://www.academia.edu, but this is not easily searchable. Currently the easiest way to find

articles on the site is to include the string ‘site:academia.edu’, without quotes, in a Google

search on the topic you are interested in, rather than going to the site itself. You do not need

an account to read articles on Academia.edu, but you do to download them. Nonetheless,

there are very few undergraduates with accounts there.

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A web-site that can be unequivocally recommended is Richard D. Wiegel (ed.), De

Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families,

http://www.roman-emperors.org. As the title suggests, this is a site dedicated to the Roman

Emperors: most of the entries are superlative, having been written specially by current leading

Late-Antique scholars in the United States.

Wikipedia is very variable, but many entries on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

were good at time of writing (e. g. those on the Vandals and on the Goths, which also have

useful external links, which provide on-line access to some of the major sources in

translation). Wikipedia is always subject to change, however, and is therefore best used as a

route to other sources rather than a reference itself.

Pretty well every primary source is available on-line, and can be found by a simple Google

search: good places to look are Michael Hart and Gregory B. Newby (edd.), Project

Gutenberg , http://www.gutenberg.org, The Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org, or (for

selections) the Internet Sourcebooks Project, specifically Paul Halsall (ed.), Internet Ancient

Sourcebook, http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asp, and Halsall (ed.), Internet Medieval Sourcebook , http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp.

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Reading Lists by Lecture Topic (arranged alphabetically by author surname)

N. B. each of the books in the General list above will be relevant to several if not most of the

topics listed below: Your seminar tutors will give you reading lists specific to your weekly

seminar topics.

1. The Empire in the days of Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius

Julian Bennett, Trajan : optimus princeps : a life and times (London: Routledge, 1997)

Anthony Birley, Marcus Aurelius : a biography , revised edn. (London: Batsford, 1987)

Tim Cornell, ‘The End of Roman Imperial Expansion’, and Greg Woolf, ‘Roman Peace’, in

War and society in the Roman world , edd. John Rich and Graham Shipley (London:

Routledge, 1993), pp. 139-170 and pp. 171-194

Martin Goodman and Jane Sherwood, The Roman world, 44 BC-AD 180 (London: Routledge,

1997)

Michael Grant, The Antonines : the Roman Empire in transition (London: Routledge, 1994)

Keith Hopkins, ‘Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade’, in The ancient economy , edd. Walter

Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002), pp. 190-230

Torsten Opper (ed.), Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (London: British Museum Press, 2008)

2. The Crisis of the Third Century

George C. Brauer, The age of the soldier emperors : Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284 (ParkRidge: Noyes, 1975)

http://www.roman-emperors.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/http://www.gutenberg.org/http://www.gutenberg.org/http://www.archive.org/http://www.archive.org/http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asphttp://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asphttp://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asphttp://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asphttp://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/broker/index.php?bbModuleId=201516_27344_HIST1045&bbListId=_3832398_1&sess=201516#masthttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Trajan%2C+optimus+princeps+%3A+A+Life+and+Times&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Marcus+Aurelius%3A+a+biography&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Marcus+Aurelius%3A+a+biography&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?War+and+Society+in+the+Roman+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?War+and+Society+in+the+Roman+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+World+44+BC-AD+180&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Antonines%3A+The+Roman+Empire+in+Transition&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2235066&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2235066&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Hadrian%3A+Empire+and+Conflict&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Hadrian%3A+Empire+and+Conflict&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Age+of+the+Soldier+Emperors%3A+Imperial+Rome&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Age+of+the+Soldier+Emperors%3A+Imperial+Rome&searchscope=6http://www.roman-emperors.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/http://www.gutenberg.org/http://www.archive.org/http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asphttp://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asphttp://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/broker/index.php?bbModuleId=201516_27344_HIST1045&bbListId=_3832398_1&sess=201516#masthttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Trajan%2C+optimus+princeps+%3A+A+Life+and+Times&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Marcus+Aurelius%3A+a+biography&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?War+and+Society+in+the+Roman+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+World+44+BC-AD+180&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Antonines%3A+The+Roman+Empire+in+Transition&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2235066&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Hadrian%3A+Empire+and+Conflict&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Age+of+the+Soldier+Emperors%3A+Imperial+Rome&searchscope=6


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John Drinkwater, The Gallic Empire : separatism and continuity in the north- western

provinces of the Roman Empire, A.D. 260-274 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1987)

Michael Grant, The collapse and recovery of the Roman Empire (London: Routledge, 1998)

Michael Kulikowski, Rome's Gothic Wars : from the third century to Alaric (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Ramsay MacMullen, Roman government's response to crisis, A.D. 235-337 (New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1976)

David Potter, The Roman Empire at bay, AD 180-395 (London: Routledge, 2004)

Adam Ziolkowski, ‘The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire’, in

The Roman Empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives , ed. Jóhann PállArnason (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 113-133

3. The Tetrarchy and Constantine

Timothy Barnes, The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine (Cambridge, MA: Harvard


Diana Bowder, The age of Constantine and Julian (London: Paul Elek, 1978)

Noel Lenski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge:


Charles Matson Odahl, Constantine and the Christian empire (London: Routledge, 2004)

Hans A. Pohlsander, The Emperor Constantine , 2nd edn. (London: Routledge, 2004)

David Potter, ‘The Transformation of the Empire: 235-337 CE’, and Hugh Elton, ‘The

Transformation of Government under Diocletian and Constantine’, in A companion to the

Roman Empire , ed. Potter (Oxford: Blackwells, 2006), pp. 153-173 and pp. 193-205

Richard Rees, Diocletian and the tetrarchy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

4. The Epansion of Christianity

Peter R. L. Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (London: Faber and

Faber, 1972)

Henry Chadwick, The Early Church , 2nd edn. (London: Penguin, 1993)

Henry Chadwick, The church in ancient society : from Galilee to Gregory the Great (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2001)

Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians (Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986), 2nd edn. as

Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the

Conversion of Constantine (London: Penguin, 2006)

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Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D 100 - 400) (New Haven: Yale


Robert A. Markus, The end of ancient Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

1990)

Philip Rousseau, The early Christian centuries (London: Longman, 2002)

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(See also the bibliography for week 6.)

Thomas S. Burns, Rome and the Barbarians (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,

2003)

Guy Halsall, Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 (Cambridge: Cambridge


Edward James, Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600 (Harlow: Longman, 2009)

Michael Kulikowski, Rome's Gothic Wars : from the third century to Alaric (Cambridge:


Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila (Cambridge: Cambridge


Michael Todd, Migrants & invaders : the movement of peoples in the ancient world (Stroud:

Tempus, 2001)

Walter Pohl & Helmut Reimitz (edd.), Strategies of distinction : the construction of the ethnic

communities, 300-800 (Leiden: Brill, 1998)

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Neil Christie, The fall of the Western Roman Empire : an archaeological and historical

perspective (London: Bloomsbury, 2011)

Simon Esmonde Cleary, The Roman West, AD 200-500 : an archaeological study

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Peter Heather, The fall of the Roman Empire [electronic resource] : a new history of Rome

and the barbarians (London: Macmillan, 2005)

Peter Heather, Empires and barbarians : migration, development and the birth of Europe

(London: Macmillan, 2009)

Christopher Kelly, Attila the Hun : barbarian terror and the fall of the Roman Empire

(London: Bodley Head, 2008)

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Thomas F. X. Noble (ed.), From Roman provinces to medieval kingdoms (Philadelphia, PA:

Pennsylvania University Press, 2006)

Bryan Ward-Perkins, The fall of Rome : and the end of civilization (Oxford: Oxford


(. The )uccessor )tates


Guy Halsall, Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 (Cambridge: Cambridge


Edward James, Europe's Barbarians, AD 200-600 (Harlow: Longman, 2009)

John Moorhead, The Roman Empire divided : the post-Roman world, 400-700 (Harlow:

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Walter Pohl and Helmut Reimitz (edd.), Regna and gentes : the relationship between late

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(Leiden: Brill, 2003)



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Robert Browning, Justinian and Theodora (London: Thames and Hudson, 1971, 2nd edn.

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Averil Cameron, Procopius and the sixth century (Berkeley: California University Press,

1985)

James A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power (London:

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Judith Herrin, The Formation of Christendom (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987),

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Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (Cambridge:


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Peter Sarris, Economy and society in the age of Justinian (Cambridge: Cambridge University

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Paul M. Barford, The early Slavs : culture and society in early medieval Eastern Europe

(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)

Florin Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (Cambridge: Cambridge


Beate Dignas and Engelbert Winter, Rome and Persia in late antiquity : neighbours and

rivals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

John V. A. Fine, The Early Medieval Balkans (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,

1990)

R. N. Frye, 'Parthia and Sassanid Persia’, in The Roman Empire and its Neighbours , ed.

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John Haldon, Byzantium in the Seventh Century: the transformation of a culture , 2nd edn.

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

James Howard-Johnston, East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the end of antiquity :

historiographical and historical studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

A. D. Lee, Information and frontiers : Roman foreign relations in late antiquity (Cambridge:


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1987)

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James Howard-Johnston, Witnesses to a world crisis : historians and histories of the Middle

East in the seventh century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Robert Hoyland, Seeing Islam as others saw it : a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish,

and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam (Princeton: Darwin, 1997)

Walter Kaegi, Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1992)

Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the

Sixth to the Eleventh Century , 2nd edn. (Harlow: Pearson, 2004)

11. The End of the Mediterranean 'orld

Samuel J. Barnish, ‘The Transformation of Classical Cities and the Pirenne Debate’, Journal

of Roman archaeology. 2 (1989), 385-399

Philip Grierson, ‘Commerce in the Dark Ages: A Critique of the Evidence’, Transactions of

the Royal Historical Society. 5th Series 9 (1959), 123-140, repr. in Grierson, Dark Age

numismatics : selected studies (London: Variorum, 1979), II

Ingrid L. Hansen and Chris Wickham (edd.), The long eighth century : Production,

Distribution and Demand (Leiden: Brill, 2000)

Alfred F. Havighurst (ed.), The Pirenne Thesis: Analysis, Criticism, and Revision , 3rd edn.

(Lexington, MA: Heath, 1976)

Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne & the origins of Europe :archaeology and the Pirenne thesis (London: Duckworth, 1983)

Richard Hodges and William Bowden (eds.), The sixth century : production, distribution, and

demand (Leiden: Brill, 1998)

Robert A. Markus, Gregory the Great and his world (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1997)

Henri Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne , trans. Bernard Miall (London: Allen and

Unwin, 1938)

Week 2 Seminar. Survival and Adaptation in the Third Century

Required reading

rimary material

Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History , trans. John Selby Watson (London: Bohn, 1853),

Book IX, http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/eutropius/trans9.html

http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Witnesses+to+a+World+Crisis%3A+Historians+and+Histories+of+the+Middle+East+in+the+Seventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Witnesses+to+a+World+Crisis%3A+Historians+and+Histories+of+the+Middle+East+in+the+Seventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Seeing+Islam+As+Others+Saw+It%3A+A+Survey+and+Evaluation+of+Christian%2C+Jewish+and+Zoroastrian+Writings+on+Early+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Seeing+Islam+As+Others+Saw+It%3A+A+Survey+and+Evaluation+of+Christian%2C+Jewish+and+Zoroastrian+Writings+on+Early+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Byzantium+and+the+Early+Islamic+Conquests&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Byzantium+and+the+Early+Islamic+Conquests&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Prophet+and+the+Age+of+the+Caliphates%3A+The+Islamic+Near+East+from+the+Sixth+to+the+Eleventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Prophet+and+the+Age+of+the+Caliphates%3A+The+Islamic+Near+East+from+the+Sixth+to+the+Eleventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Prophet+and+the+Age+of+the+Caliphates%3A+The+Islamic+Near+East+from+the+Sixth+to+the+Eleventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626260~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626260~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1627187~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1627187~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1627187~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Dark+Age+Numismatics%3A+Selected+Studies&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Dark+Age+Numismatics%3A+Selected+Studies&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Long+Eighth+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Pirenne+Thesis%3A+Analysis%2C+Criticism%2C+and+Revision&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Pirenne+Thesis%3A+Analysis%2C+Criticism%2C+and+Revision&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed%2C+Charlemagne+and+the+Origins+of+Europe%3A+Archaeology+and+the+Pirenne+Thesis&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed%2C+Charlemagne+and+the+Origins+of+Europe%3A+Archaeology+and+the+Pirenne+Thesis&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century%3A+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century%3A+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Gregory+the+Great+and+his+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Gregory+the+Great+and+his+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed+and+Charlemagne&searchscope=6http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/eutropius/trans9.htmlhttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Witnesses+to+a+World+Crisis%3A+Historians+and+Histories+of+the+Middle+East+in+the+Seventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Witnesses+to+a+World+Crisis%3A+Historians+and+Histories+of+the+Middle+East+in+the+Seventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Seeing+Islam+As+Others+Saw+It%3A+A+Survey+and+Evaluation+of+Christian%2C+Jewish+and+Zoroastrian+Writings+on+Early+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Seeing+Islam+As+Others+Saw+It%3A+A+Survey+and+Evaluation+of+Christian%2C+Jewish+and+Zoroastrian+Writings+on+Early+Islam&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Byzantium+and+the+Early+Islamic+Conquests&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Prophet+and+the+Age+of+the+Caliphates%3A+The+Islamic+Near+East+from+the+Sixth+to+the+Eleventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Prophet+and+the+Age+of+the+Caliphates%3A+The+Islamic+Near+East+from+the+Sixth+to+the+Eleventh+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626260~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626260~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1627187~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1627187~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Dark+Age+Numismatics%3A+Selected+Studies&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Dark+Age+Numismatics%3A+Selected+Studies&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Long+Eighth+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Pirenne+Thesis%3A+Analysis%2C+Criticism%2C+and+Revision&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed%2C+Charlemagne+and+the+Origins+of+Europe%3A+Archaeology+and+the+Pirenne+Thesis&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed%2C+Charlemagne+and+the+Origins+of+Europe%3A+Archaeology+and+the+Pirenne+Thesis&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century%3A+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Sixth+Century%3A+Production%2C+Distribution+and+Demand&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Gregory+the+Great+and+his+World&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Mohammed+and+Charlemagne&searchscope=6http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/eutropius/trans9.html


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)econdary orientation

Lukas de Blois, 'The Crisis of the Third Century A. D. in the Roman Empire: A Modern

Myth? ', in The transformation of economic life under the Roman Empire : proceedings of the

second workshop of the international network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.

- A.D. 476), Nottingham, July 4-7, 2001 , edd. Lukas de Blois and J. Rich (Leiden: Brill,2002), pp. 204-217

Additional reading

rimary material

Texts

Aurelius Victor, About the Emperors , trans. Harry W. Bird as Aurelius Victor, Liber de

Caesaribus of Sextus Aurelius Victor (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994), chapters

25-38 (pp. 29-40)

Herodian, History of the empire [electronic resource] , ed./trans. Christopher Whittaker, 2

vols (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969, online edn. 2014)

Cassius Dio, Roman History , ed. Herbert Baldwin Foster, trans. Earnest J. Carey, 9 vols

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914-1927, online edn. 2014), IX, Books

LXXIII-LXXX

Material Culture

Kevin Greene, The archaeology of the Roman economy (London: Batsford, 1986, repr.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)

Edward Besly and Roger Bland, The Cunetio treasure : Roman coinage of the third century

A.D. (London: British Museum, 1983)


Andrew G. Scott, ‘Cassius Dio, Caracalla and the Senate’, Klio. , 97 (2015), 157-175,

responding to Davenport below

Adam M. Kemezis, Greek narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans : Cassius Dio,Philostratus and Herodian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014)

Colin Elliott, ‘The Acceptance and Value of Roman Silver Coinage in the Second and Third

Centuries A. D.’, Numismatic Chronicle , 174 (2014), 129-152

Caillan Davenport, ‘Cassius Dio and Caracalla’, The Classical quarterly. , 62 (2012), 796-815

Adam Ziolkowski, ‘The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire’, in

The Roman Empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives , ed. Jóhann PállArnason (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 113-133

http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Liber+de+Caesaribus+of+Sextus+Aurelius+Victor&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Liber+de+Caesaribus+of+Sextus+Aurelius+Victor&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search~S6?/tHistory+of+the+Empire/thistory+of+the+empire/1%2C3%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=thistory+of+the+empire&1%2C1%2Chttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search~S6?/tHistory+of+the+Empire/thistory+of+the+empire/1%2C3%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=thistory+of+the+empire&1%2C1%2Chttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=FOSTER&title=Roman+History&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=FOSTER&title=Roman+History&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=FOSTER&title=Roman+History&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Archaeology+of+the+Roman+Economy&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Archaeology+of+the+Roman+Economy&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cunetio+Treasure%3A+Roman+Coinage+of+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cunetio+Treasure%3A+Roman+Coinage+of+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626308~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Greek+narratives+of+the+Roman+Empire+under+the+Severans%3A+Cassius+Dio%2C+Philostratus+and+Herodian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Greek+narratives+of+the+Roman+Empire+under+the+Severans%3A+Cassius+Dio%2C+Philostratus+and+Herodian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1625209~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+Empire+in+Context%3A+Historical+and+Comparative+Perspectives&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Transformation+of+Economic+Life+under+the+Roman+Empire&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Liber+de+Caesaribus+of+Sextus+Aurelius+Victor&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Liber+de+Caesaribus+of+Sextus+Aurelius+Victor&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search~S6?/tHistory+of+the+Empire/thistory+of+the+empire/1%2C3%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=thistory+of+the+empire&1%2C1%2Chttp://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/l?author=FOSTER&title=Roman+History&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Archaeology+of+the+Roman+Economy&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cunetio+Treasure%3A+Roman+Coinage+of+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Cunetio+Treasure%3A+Roman+Coinage+of+the+Third+Century&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1626308~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Greek+narratives+of+the+Roman+Empire+under+the+Severans%3A+Cassius+Dio%2C+Philostratus+and+Herodian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?Greek+narratives+of+the+Roman+Empire+under+the+Severans%3A+Cassius+Dio%2C+Philostratus+and+Herodian&searchscope=6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1625209~S6http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/search/t?The+Roman+Empire+in+Context%3A+Historical+and+Comparative+Perspectives&searchscope=6


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Christer Bruun, ‘The Antonine Plague and the “Third-Century Crisis”’, in Crises and the

Roman Empire : proceedings of the Seventh Workshop of the International Network

(Nijmegen, June 20-24, 2006) , edd. Oliver Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn and Danielle Slootjes

(Leiden: Brill, 2007), 201-217

John Drinkwater, ‘Maximinus to Diocletian and the “crisis”’, Elio Lo Cascio, ‘Thegovernment and administration of the empire in the central decades of the third century’, and

Mireille Corbierin, ‘Coinage and taxation: the state’s point of view, A. D. 193-337’, in The

Cambridge ancient history. Vol.12, The crisis of empire A.D. 193-337 , edd. Alan K.

Bowman, Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey, 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2005), pp. 28-66, 159-169 and 327-392

David Potter, The Roman Empire at bay, AD 180-395 (London: Routledge, 2004)

Lukas De Blois, ‘Roman Jurists and the Crisis of the Third Century A. D. in the Roman

Empire’, in Administration, prosopography and appointment policies in the Roman Empire :

proceedings of the first workshop of the international network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 27 B.C. - A.D. 406), Leiden, June 28 - July 1, 2000 , ed. Lukas De Blois

(Amsterdam: Gieben, 2001), pp. 136-153

Guy de la Bedoyère, ‘Carausius and the marks RSR and I.N.P.C.D.A.’, The numismaticchronicle. , 158 (1998), 79-88

Michael Grant, The collapse and recovery of the Roman Empire (London: Routledge, 1998)

Cathy E. King and David Wigg (edd.), Coin finds and coin use in the Roman world : the

thirteenth Oxford symposium on coinage and monetary history. 25-27.3.1993 (Berlin: Mann,

1996)

Christopher Whittaker, The Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study

(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)

Dominic Rathbone, Economic rationalism and rural society in third-century A.D. Egypt : the

Heroninos archive and the Appianus estate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

John Drinkwater, The Gallic Empire : separatism and continuity in the north- western

provinces of the Roman Empire, A.D. 260-274 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1987)

Lukas De Blois, The policy of the emperor Gallienus (Leiden: Brill, 1976)

Ramsay MacMullen, Roman government's response to crisis, A.D. 235-337 (New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1976)

George C. Brauer, The age of the soldier emperors : Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284 (Park

Ridge: Noyes, 1975)

John Scarborough, 'Aurelian: Questions and Problems', The Classical Journal. , 68 (1972-

1973), 334-345

Fergus Millar, ‘Paul of Samosata, Zenobia, and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture, andPolitical Allegiance in Third-Century Syria’, The journal of Roman studies. , 61 (1971), 1-17

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Peter R. L. Brown, ‘Approaches to the Religious Crisis of the Third Century A. D.’, English

historical review. , 83 (1968), 542-558

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Week 3 Seminar. Communications and Power: money and late Roman rule

Note that this seminar will be held in the Group Study space in Special Collections in the

Brotherton Library. We will be handling coins, so please wash your hands immediately before

the class.

Required reading

rimary material

Jerome, Chronicle , trans. Roger Pearse,

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm, pp. 306-316


Yann Rivière, 'The Restoration of Order to the Roman Empire: From the Tetrarchs toConstantine', in Rome and the barbarians : the birth of a new world , ed. Jean-Jacques

Aillagon (Milano: Skira, 2008), pp. 186-193

Additional reading

rimary material

Texts

Orosius, Seven books of history against the pagans , trans. Andrew T. Fear (Liverpool:

Liverpool University Press, 2010), Book VII, chapters 25-28 (pp. 360-372)

Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History , trans. John Selby Watson (London: Bohn, 1853),

Book X, http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/eutropius/trans10.html

Material Culture

Harold Mattingly, C. H. V. Sutherland, R. A. G. Carson, J. P. C. Kent & A. M. Burnett (edd.),The Roman imperial coinage. Vol.6, From Diocletian's reform (A.D. 294) to the death of

Maximinus (A.D. 313) , ed. C. H. V. Sutherland (London: Spink and Son, 1967)


Richard Flower, ‘Visions of Constantine’, The journal of Roman studies. , 102 (2012), 287-

305

David Potter, ‘The Transformation of the Empire: 235-337 CE’, and Hugh Elton, ‘The

Transformation of Government under Diocletian and Constantine’, in A companion to the

Roman Empire , ed. David Potter (Oxford: Blackwells, 2006), pp. 153-173 and pp. 193-205

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Noel Lenski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2006): many useful contributions

Richard Rees, Diocletian and the tetrarchy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

Simon Swain (ed.), Approaching late antiquity : the transformation from early to late empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Simon Corcoran, The empire of the Tetrarchs : imperial pronouncements and government,

AD 284-324 , 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Bill Ledbetter, ‘The illegitimacy of Constantine and the birth of the tetrarchy’, and Stuart

Hall, ‘Some Constantinian documents in the "Vita Constantini"’, in Constantine : history,

historiography, and legend , edd. Samuel N. C. Lieu and Daniel Montserrat (London:

Routledge, 1998), pp. 74-85 and 86-113

Averil Cameron, The later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress, 1993), pp. 30-65

Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (London: Batsford, 1985)

Timothy Barnes, The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine (Cambridge, MA: Harvard


Michael Hendy, ‘Mint and Fiscal Administration under Diocletian, his Colleagues and his

Successors, A. D. 305-24’, The journal of Roman studies. , 62 (1972), 75-82

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Week 4 Seminar. Bishops and Confessors: the new Christian Church

Required reading

rimary material

Bishop Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles , trans. in The epistles of S. Cyprian, Bishop of

Carthage and martyr : with the Council of Carthage, on the baptism of heretics ; to which

are added the extant works of S. Pacian, Bishop of Barcelona (Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1844),

nos 16, 17, and 20-27 (pp. 40-44 and 46-59)


Allen Brent, Cyprian and Roman Carthage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010),

pp. 2-22

Additional reading

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Texts

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