New Rome: the empire in the east

by Stephenson, Paul

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Title Statements

Full title :New Rome : the empire in the east / Paul Stephenson.

Summary

"In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically-minded interpretation of antiquity's end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA. From these and other sources, we learn that pollution and pandemics influenced the fate of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. During its final five centuries, the empire in the east survived devastation by natural disasters, the degradation of the human environment, and pathogens previously unknown to the empire's densely populated, unsanitary cities. Despite the Plague of Justinian, regular "barbarian" invasions, a war with Persia, and the rise of Islam, the empire endured as a political entity. However, Greco-Roman civilization, a world of interconnected cities that had shared a common material culture for a millennium, did not"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021
Edition:First Harvard University Press edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ): : illustrations (some color), maps.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674269460, 0674269462
oclc:on1305367454
LC Classification:DF553
Dewey Decimal:938

Part 1. Life in the later Roman world: Life at the end of the 'Lead Age' -- Family and faith -- An empire of cities -- Culture, communications, commerce -- Constantinople, the new Rome -- Part 2. Power and politics: The Theodosian Age, AD 395-451 -- Soldiers and civilians, AD 451-527 -- The Age of Justinian, AD 527-602 -- The Heraclians, AD 602-c. 700 -- Part 3: The end of antiquity: The end of ancient civilisation -- Apocalypse and the end of antiquity -- Emperors of New Rome.

Subjects

Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081 Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 Civilisation gréco-romaine Civilization, Greco-Roman Empire byzantin -- Histoire -- 527-1081 Empire byzantin -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à … History Islamic Empire Islamic Empire -- History Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- To 1453 İstanbul (Turquie) -- Histoire -- Jusqu… Middle East Middle East -- History -- To 622 Moyen-Orient -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 622 Romans Romans -- Middle East Rome -- Histoire Rome -- History Rome (Empire)