Doug Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Information and Frontiers: Late Roman Foreign Relations (1993), Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), and War in Late Antiquity: A Social History (2007), as well as contributing chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History.

Lee not only provides his readers with the most up-to-date Anglophone scholarship, but also takes note of key publications in French, German and Italian, thus transcending this book's primary target audience of students — many of whom will rarely have mastered all relevant languages — and making it just as valuable for scholars... As it stands, this is the most thorough yet accessible overview of Imperial Rome's twilight centuries since Ernst Stein's Histoire du Bas-Empire. The present reviewer could think of no higher endorsement.

• List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The Constantinian Inheritance; Part I: The Later Fourth Century; 2. Emperors, Usurpers and Frontiers; 3. Towards a Christian Empire; 4. Old Rome, New Rome; Part II: The Long Fifth Century; 5. Generalissimos and Imperial Courts; 6. Barbarians and Romans; 7. Church and State, Piety and Power; 8. Anastasius and the Resurrection of Imperial Power; 9. Rome’s Heirs in the West; Part III: Longer-Term Trends; 10. Urban Continuity and Change; 11. Economic Patterns; Part IV: The Age of Justinian; 12. Justinian and the Roman Past; 13. Justinian and the Christian Present; 14. Justinian and the End of Antiquity; Chronology; Lists of rulers; List of bishops of Rome; A guide to further reading; Select bibliography of modern works; Index.

Doug Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Information and Frontiers: Late Roman Foreign Relations (1993), Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), and War in Late Antiquity: A Social History (2007), as well as contributing chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History.

Lee not only provides his readers with the most up-to-date Anglophone scholarship, but also takes note of key publications in French, German and Italian, thus transcending this book's primary target audience of students — many of whom will rarely have mastered all relevant languages — and making it just as valuable for scholars... As it stands, this is the most thorough yet accessible overview of Imperial Rome's twilight centuries since Ernst Stein's Histoire du Bas-Empire. The present reviewer could think of no higher endorsement.

• List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The Constantinian Inheritance; Part I: The Later Fourth Century; 2. Emperors, Usurpers and Frontiers; 3. Towards a Christian Empire; 4. Old Rome, New Rome; Part II: The Long Fifth Century; 5. Generalissimos and Imperial Courts; 6. Barbarians and Romans; 7. Church and State, Piety and Power; 8. Anastasius and the Resurrection of Imperial Power; 9. Rome’s Heirs in the West; Part III: Longer-Term Trends; 10. Urban Continuity and Change; 11. Economic Patterns; Part IV: The Age of Justinian; 12. Justinian and the Roman Past; 13. Justinian and the Christian Present; 14. Justinian and the End of Antiquity; Chronology; Lists of rulers; List of bishops of Rome; A guide to further reading; Select bibliography of modern works; Index.

Doug Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Information and Frontiers: Late Roman Foreign Relations (1993), Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), and War in Late Antiquity: A Social History (2007), as well as contributing chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History.

Lee not only provides his readers with the most up-to-date Anglophone scholarship, but also takes note of key publications in French, German and Italian, thus transcending this book's primary target audience of students — many of whom will rarely have mastered all relevant languages — and making it just as valuable for scholars... As it stands, this is the most thorough yet accessible overview of Imperial Rome's twilight centuries since Ernst Stein's Histoire du Bas-Empire. The present reviewer could think of no higher endorsement.

• List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The Constantinian Inheritance; Part I: The Later Fourth Century; 2. Emperors, Usurpers and Frontiers; 3. Towards a Christian Empire; 4. Old Rome, New Rome; Part II: The Long Fifth Century; 5. Generalissimos and Imperial Courts; 6. Barbarians and Romans; 7. Church and State, Piety and Power; 8. Anastasius and the Resurrection of Imperial Power; 9. Rome’s Heirs in the West; Part III: Longer-Term Trends; 10. Urban Continuity and Change; 11. Economic Patterns; Part IV: The Age of Justinian; 12. Justinian and the Roman Past; 13. Justinian and the Christian Present; 14. Justinian and the End of Antiquity; Chronology; Lists of rulers; List of bishops of Rome; A guide to further reading; Select bibliography of modern works; Index.