TY - BOOK ID - 3500709 TI - East and West in late antiquity PY - 2015 VL - 20 SN - 9789004282926 9004282920 9789004289529 9004289526 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - East and West KW - Social change KW - Roman provinces KW - Land settlement KW - Church history KW - Orient et Occident KW - Changement social KW - Provinces romaines KW - Colonisation intérieure KW - Eglise KW - History KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Rome KW - Syria KW - Syrie KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Relations KW - Foreign relations KW - Relations interethniques KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Relations extérieures KW - 937.08 KW - Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) KW - 937.08 Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) KW - Christianity KW - Europe KW - Colonisation intérieure KW - Relations extérieures KW - Provinces of Rome KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Rome (Italy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3500709 AB - "East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs"--Provided by publisher. ER -