The Mediterranean world in late antiquity 395-700 AD

Introduction 1. Constantinople and the eastern empire 2. The empire and the barbarians 3. Christianization and its challenges 4. Late Roman society and economy 5. Justinian and reconquest 6. Late antique culture and private life 7. Urban change and the late antique countryside 8. The eastern Mediterranean - a region in ferment 9. A changed world Conclusion