Chapter 7 Review: Suggested References

Some scholars regard the political, social, and cultural changes in the late Roman Empire as evidence of a sad “decline and fall”; others judge them to have had mixed positive and negative consequences. The rise of Christianity to the status of an official religion also changed Roman life in complex ways that are still being investigated.

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*Grubbs, Judith Evans. Women and Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce, and Widowhood. 2002.

Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. 2010.

Jacobsen, Torsten Cumberland. A History of the Vandals. 2012.

Kelly, Christopher. Ruling the Later Roman Empire. 2006.

*Lee, A. D. Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook. 2000.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. 1997.

Odahl, Charles. Constantine and the Christian Empire. 2nd ed. 2010.

*Procopius. The Secret History. Trans. G. A. Williamson and Peter Sarris. 2007.

*Procopius. The Wars. Vols. I–V. Trans. H. B. Dewing. 1914–1928.

Rosen, William. Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire. 2008.

Southern, Pat, and Karen R. Dixon. The Late Roman Army. 1996.

Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean. 2007.