Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bar code on the back, slightly rubbed, overall very good and clean. / Barcode auf der R�ckseite, leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Acknowledgements -- Editor�s Preface and Acknowledgements -- General Editor�s Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- 1. Explosion of Late Antiquity, Andrea Giardina -- 2. The Other Transition: from the Ancient World to Feudalism, Chris Wickham -- 3. The Nika Riot: A Reappraisal, Geoffrey Greatrex -- 4. The Justinianic Plague Revisited, Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- 5. The Origins of the Manorial Economy: New Insights from Late Antiquity, Peter Sarris -- 6. Ruling the Late Roman and Early Byzantine City: A Continuous History, Mark Whittow -- 7. Syria in Transition, ad 550-750: An Archaeological Approach, Clive Foss -- 8. Recruitment in Roman Armies from Justinian to Heraclius (ca. 565-615), Michael Whitby -- 9. Heraclius� Persian Campaigns and the Revival of the East Roman Empire, 622-630, James Howard-Johnston -- 10. John Moschus and his Friend Sophronius the Sophist, Henry Chadwick -- 11. Holy Images and Likeness, Gilbert Dagron. - Since the days of Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), generally regarded as the founder of Islamic studies as a field of modern scholarship, the formative period in Islamic history has remained a prominent theme for research. In Goldziher�s time it was possible for scholars to work with the whole of the field and practically all of its available sources, but more recently the increasing sophistication of scholarly methodologies, a broad diversification in research interests, and a phenomenal burgeoning of the catalogued and published source material available for study have combined to generate an increasing �compartmentalisation� of research into very specific areas, each with its own interests, priorities, agendas, methodologies, and controversies. While this has undoubtedly led to a deepening and broadening of our understanding in all of these areas, and hence is to be welcomed, it has also tended to isolate scholarship in one subject from research in other areas, and even more so from colleagues outside of Arab-Islamic studies, not to mention students and others seeking to familiarise themselves with a particular topic for the first time. The Formation of the Classical Islamic World is a reference series that seeks to address this problem by making available a critical selection of the published research that has served to stimulate and define the way modern scholarship has come to understand the formative period of Islamic history, for these purposes taken to mean approximately AD 600-950. Each of the volumes in the series is edited by an expert on its subject, who has chosen a number of studies that taken together serve as a cogent introduction to the state of current knowledge on the topic, the issues and problems particular to it, and the range of scholarly opinion informing it. Articles originally published in languages other than English have been translated, and editors have provided critical introductions and select bibliographies for further reading. ISBN 9781409400707