The World of Late Antiquity

First published in 1971, this illustrated cultural history treats the centuries from the later Roman Empire to the early Islamic caliphates as a single transforming world rather than a simple fall of Rome. Brown follows changes in city life, court, and countryside around the Mediterranean and the Near East, and he gives weight to new religious styles: Christian bishops, monks, holy men, and, later, the rise of Islam. Art, patronage, and the inner life of converts sit beside imperial politics. The book is an interpretive survey of a period, not a year-by-year military chronicle.

Quarter-bound in yellow metallic buckram with black Modigliani paper sides cover printed with colour picture.