Early Medieval Byzantium and the End of the Ancient World

To talk of the Roman empire after 600 as Byzantine carries the implication that something fundamental had changed. Clearly the empire was much smaller, but was it also distinct as a social system? Did the Roman aristocracy adapt and survive in the seventh and eighth centuries, or did a new elite emerge? Did those farming the empire's fields notice any difference? A combination of familiar texts and material evidence from archaeology supports a case for this as a period of radical change, but any conclusions are bound to be provisional as long as the archaeology of this period remains a low priority.

[1]  C. Foss.  Byzantine Saints in Early Islamic Syria , 2007 .

[2]  Jarrett A. Lobell.  Emblems of empire , 2007 .

[3]  V. Kalas.  The 2004 Survey of the Byzantine Settlement at Selime-Yaprakhisar in The Peristrema Valley, Cappadocia , 2006 .

[4]  M. Whittow.  Everything you always wanted to know about the history of Byzantium, 641-867 (but were afraid to ask)… , 2003 .

[5]  P. Heather,et al.  Politics, philosophy, and empire in the fourth century : select orations of Themistius , 2001 .

[6]  N. Roberts,et al.  Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey: a palaeoecological record of lake and catchment-related changes , 1999 .

[7]  N. Roberts,et al.  Palaeoecological and archaeological evidence for human occupance in southwest Turkey: the Beyşehir occupation phase , 1998, Anatolian Studies.

[8]  C. Lightfoot.  The survival of cities in Byzantine Anatolia : The case of Amorium , 1998 .

[9]  R. Matthews.  Ancient Anatolia : fifty years' work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , 1998 .

[10]  T. Mathews,et al.  Islamic-Style Mansions in Byzantine Cappadocia and the Development of the Inverted T-Plan , 1997 .

[11]  P. Brown.  So debate the world of Late Antiquity revisited , 1997 .

[12]  G. Tate.  Les campagnes de la Syrie du Nord , 1992 .

[13]  M. Whittow.  RULING THE LATE ROMAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE CITY: A CONTINUOUS HISTORY , 1990 .

[14]  J. Haldon.  The feudalism debate once more: The case of Byzantium , 1989 .

[15]  H. Berktay.  The feudalism debate: The Turkish end – is ‘tax – vs. – rent’ necessarily the product and sign of a modal difference? , 1987 .

[16]  C. Wickham,et al.  The uniqueness of the East , 1985 .

[17]  Chris Wickham,et al.  The Other Transition: From the Ancient World to Feudalism* , 1984 .

[18]  C. Foss.  Archaeology and the "Twenty Cities" of Byzantine Asia , 1977, American Journal of Archaeology.

[19]  Clive Foss,et al.  Late Antique and Byzantine Ankara , 1977 .

[20]  R. Morris.  THE POWERFUL AND THE POOR INTENTH-CENTURY BY ZANTIUM: LAW AND REALITY , 1976 .

[21]  C. Foss.  The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity , 1975 .

[22]  P. Brown.  The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity , 1971, Journal of Roman Studies.

[23]  W. Ashburner.  The Farmer's Law. II , 1912, The Journal of Hellenic Studies.

[24]  W. Ashburner.  The Farmer's Law , 1910, The Journal of Hellenic Studies.