Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His work concerns the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.
发表于2025-01-09
The World of Late Antiquity 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 历史 古代晚期 英文原版 罗马帝国 类别-历史 海外中国研究 希腊化世界 国别-英国
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East.
The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts.
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评分unbelievable contempt for Roman military power and civil admin., almost celebrating the fall of the Empire as "making way for" the Catholic Church and the barbarians, Europe's future masters. Violently disagree with the book's bias.
评分very insightful.
评分好书。Late Antiquity的奠基之作。Peter Brown在本书中聚焦公元3世纪末到7世纪初的社会史与宗教史,并且随着章节的发展展现出了这个时代重心的东移:Rome-Constantinople-Damascus,从而体现了(西)罗马帝国-(东)罗马帝国-波斯帝国-阿拉伯帝国的继承与流变。西欧的讨论缺失是一大问题,全书读完也有一点点hintsight的感觉。因为研究时段比较长、范围广、偏重分析而非叙事,不太适合新人读。Late Antiquity到现在也有很多成果了,不过返回来看看早期研究也挺有趣的。很多论点依然不过时。8.7。
评分very insightful.
The World of Late Antiquity 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书