Ancient Rome Bibliography

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Mary Fesak:

Arjava, Antti. Women and Law in Late Antiquity New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bradley, Keith. Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Clark, Gillian. Women in Late Antiquity New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Coon, Linda. Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Cooper, Kate. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity Cambridege (MA), Harvard University Press, 1996.

Gardner, Jane. Women in Roman Law and and Society London: Croom and Helm, 1986.

Gould, G. "Women in the Writings of the Fathers: Language, Belief and Reality." In Woman and the Church, edited by W.J. Sheils and D. Wood, 1-13. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

B.H.Allen:

Bury, J. B. History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian. New York: Dover Publications, 1958.

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Abridged ed. London: Penguin, 2000.

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Grant, Michael. The Fall of the Roman Empire: a Reappraisal. Radnor, Pa.] : [New York: Annenberg School Press ; distributed by C. N. Potter, 1976.

Heather, P. J. The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History of Rome and the Barbarians. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lot, Ferdinand. The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages. London, New York: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; A.A. Knopf, 1931.

Potter, D. S. The Roman Empire at Bay: AD 180-395. London ; New York: Routledge, 2004.

Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Brexton L. O'Donnell Blockley, R.C. East Roman Foreign Policy: Formation and Conduct from Diocletian to Anastasius. Leeds, U.K.: Francis Cairns (Publications) LTD, 1992.

Liebschuetz, J.H W.G. Barbarians and Bishops: Army, Church, and State in the Age of Arcadius and Chrysostom. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Lee, A.D. Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Millar, Fergus. The Roman Empire and its Neighbours. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1981.

Isaac, Benjamin. The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Antonucci, Michael. “War by other means: The legacy of Byzantium.” History Today 43 (1993): 11.

Gordon, C.D. "Subsidies in Roman Imperial Defence." Phoenix 3 (1949): 60-69.

Cutler, Anthony. “Significant Gifts: Patterns of Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Diplomacy.” Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies 1 (2008) 79-101.

Jones, A.H.M. The Decline of the Ancient World. New York: Longman Inc, 1966

Bury, J.B. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. 1923. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1958.

Bury, J.B. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians.1928. Reprint. New York: Russell & Russell Inc, 1963.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1781. Reprint, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1993.

Hodgkin, Thomas. Italy and her Invaders. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892

Lauren Garcia:

Banaji, Jairus. Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Brown, Peter. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity Towards a Christian Empire. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Garnsey, Peter. Cities, Peasants, and Food in Classical Antiquity, ed. Walter Scheidel. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Garnsey, Peter. Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 1970.

Jones, A.H.M. Decline of the Ancient World. Routledge, 1975.

Jones, A.H.M, “The Roman Colonate,” in The Roman Economy: Studies in Ancient Economic and Administrative History, ed. P.A. Brunt. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974. Originally published in Past and Present XIII, 1958.

Thompson, E.A. “Peasant Revolts in late Roman Gaul and Spain.” Past and Present (1952): 11-23.

Van Dam, Raymond. Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul. University of California Press, 1985).

Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Jordan Harmer:

Bosworth, C. E. The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996. Print.

Crowley, Roger. "1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West." New York: Hyperion, 2005. Print.

Kaegi, Walter Emil. "Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests." Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. Print.

Kaegi, Walter Emil. "Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa." Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.

Nicol, Donald M. "The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453." Cambridge: Camb. U. P., 1993. Print.

Nicol, Donald MacGillivray. "The End of the Byzantine Empire." London: E. Arnold, 1979. Print.

Kathleen MacIndoe:

Boak, Arthur E.R. Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Ann 	Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1955.

Brown, Peter. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2012.

___________. The World of Late Antiquity:  AD 150-750. New York: W.W. Norton and 	Company, Inc., 1971.

Burckhardt, Jacob. The Age of Constantine the Great. Translated by Moses Hadas. New York, 	NY: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1949.

Bury, J.B. “Modern Views on the Collapse of the Empire.”  In The Fall of Rome:  Can It Be 	Explained?, edited by Mortimer Chambers, 13-20. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and 	Winston, Inc., 1963.

Dopsch, Alfons. The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization. London: Stephen Austin and Sons, LTD., Hertford, 1937.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited by Hans-Friedrich Mueller. New York: Modern Library, 2003.

Grant, Michael. History of Rome. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.

Momigliano, Arnaldo D., ed. The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1963.

Pirenne, Henri. A History of Europe. Vol. 1. Translated by Bernard Miall. New York: 	Meridian Books, 1956.

Rostovtzeff, M. Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Zosimus. Historia Nova. Translated by James Buchanan and Harold T. Davis. San Antonio: 	Trinity University Press, 1967.

Patrick Ammirati:

Anthorny A Barrett, Caligula the Corruption of Power: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Ferrero Guglielmo, Characters and Events of Roman History; from Ceasar to Nero:Trans Frances Lance Ferrero, New York, The Knickerbocker Press, 1909.

Lynn White Jr,The Transformation of the Roman World:Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1966.

M.T.W Arnheim,The Senatroial Aristocacy in the later Roman Empire: Oxford, Clavendon Press, 1972.

R.F. Arragon,The Transition from the Ancient to Medieval World: New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

Ramsay MacMullen,Corruption and the Decline of Rome: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988. Jamie Battles:

Goldsworthy, Adrian. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

Goffart, Walter. Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).

Goffart, Walter. Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Pagden, Anthony. Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present, (New York: Modern Library, 2001).

Payne, Alina, Ann Kuttner, and Rebekah Smith, eds. Antiquity and its Interpreters, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982).

Webster, Leslie and Michelle Brown, eds. The Transformation of the Roman World: AD 400-900, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

Whitby, Michael. Essential Histories: Rome at War, AD 293-696, (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003).

Bailey Ivancic

Balsdon, J.P.V.D. Roman Women: Their History and Habits. London: The Bodley Head, 1962.

Bauman, Richard A. Women and Politics in Ancient Rome. London: Routledge, 1992.

Evans, John K. War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome. London: Routledge, 1991.

Gardner, Jane F. Women in Roman Law & Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1986.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.

Veyne, Paul. A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Eily Walsh:

Belloc, Hilaire. Europe and the Faith. New York: Paulist Press, 1920.

Fox, Robin. Pagans and Christians. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Hanson, R. P. C.. "The Reaction Of The Church To The Collapse Of The Western Roman Empire In The Fifth Century." Vigiliae Christianae 26, no. 4 (1972): 272.

Lunt, William E.. Papal Revenues in the Middle Ages,. New York: Octagon Books, 1934.

Richards, Jeffrey. The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476-752. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Sommerfeldt, John R.. Christianity in culture: A Historical Quest. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2009.

Dana Baumgartner

Harries, Jill. Imperial Rome 284-363: The New Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Bartlett, Bruce. "How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome." Cato Journal. no. 2 (1994): 287-303. http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1994/11/cj14n2-7.pdf (accessed November 4, 2013).

Birley, Anthony R. Roman Government of Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Ferrarini, Twani Hunt. "The Economics of Government and the Fall of Rome." Social Education. no. 2 (2013): 60-63.

Lendon, J.E. Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Shane Carlson

Thompson, E.A. The Huns. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture, Edited By Max Knight. Berkley: University of California Press, 1973. Ermatinger, James W. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Burns, Thomas S. A History of the Ostrogoths. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Jacobsen, Torsten Cumberland. A History of the Vandals. Yardley: Westholme, 2012.

Musset, Lucien. The Germanic Invasions: The Making of Europe AD 400-600 Translated by Edward and Columba James. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975.

Bury, J.B. The Invasions of Europe by the Barbarians. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967.