428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Paperback)

from DinadansFriend

Traina takes the reader on a tour around the Mediterranean basin, starting with Armenia, and ending with a look at the state of the Sassanian Empire. He chose 428 for that was the year that the Sassanians swallowed the long-standing armenian client state while the Romans were involved with trying...

from DinadansFriend

Traina takes the reader on a tour around the Mediterranean basin, starting with Armenia, and ending with a look at the state of the Sassanian Empire. He chose 428 for that was the year that the Sassanians swallowed the long-standing armenian client state while the Romans were involved with trying...

from bezoar44

The format of this book is what makes it work: a tour of the Late Antique world, running widdershins from Armenia, to Constantinople, to western Europe, to north Africa, Egypt, Palestine, and Persia. The snapshot of a single year sacrifices a sense of change over time for a view of the connection...

from agingcow2345

An excellent survey of 5th Century Rome taking a particular year for which we have records from most of the major provinces. Would have preferred 405-406 but my personal focus is military-political history so the breach of the Rhine frontier and the collapse of Gaul and Germania is of great inter...

from agingcow2345

An excellent survey of 5th Century Rome taking a particular year for which we have records from most of the major provinces. Would have preferred 405-406 but my personal focus is military-political history so the breach of the Rhine frontier and the collapse of Gaul and Germania is of great inter...