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Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. xviii + 780 pp. $49.95 cloth.
The half millennium or so of late antiquity (here defined as ca. 250-800) spans momentous events: the conversion of the Roman Empire, the Barbarian invasions, the rise...