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East and West in Late Antiquity
Invasion, Settlement, Ethnogenesis and Conflicts of Religion
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East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs.
Wolf Liebeschuetz, PhD (1957), taught Ancient History at Leicester and then at Nottingham Universities. He is now Professor Emeritus, FBA and FSA and corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. His main interest is on the development of cities, the settlement of barbarians, and religion both pagan and Christian in Late Antiquity. Among his publications are The Decline and Fall of the Roman City ( Oxford University Press, 2001), Ambrose of Milan, Political Letters and Speeches (Liverpool University Press, 2005) and Ambrose & John Chrysostom (Oxford University Press, 2011).
All interested in Late Antiquity. It is of immediate relevance to readers trying to understand the impact of barbarian invasions, the process of Christianisation, or the condition Syria in the centuries preceding the Arab conquest.