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East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity
Historiographical and Historical Studies
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East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity
Historiographical and Historical Studies
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The last, longest and most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia (603-628) brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. Despite its evident significance, not least as the distant setting for Muhammad's prophetic mission, this last great war of antiquity attracted comparatively little scholarly attention until the last decades of the twentieth century. James Howard-Johnston's contributions to the subject, most of which were published in out-of-the-way places (one, that on al-Tabari, is printed for the first time), are brought together in convenient form in this volume. They strive to root history in close observation of landscape and monuments as well as careful analysis of texts. They explore the evolving balance of power between the two empires, look at events through Roman, Armenian and Arab eyes, and home in on the climax of the final conflict in the 620s.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- I The two great powers in Late Antiquity: a comparison The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. III: States, Resources and Armies, ed. A. Cameron. Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, Inc., 1995
- II Procopius, Roman defences north of the Taurus and the new fortress of Citharizon The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire (BAR Int. Ser. 553), ed. D.H. French and C.S. Lightfoot. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1989
- III Byzantine Anzitene Armies and Frontiers in Roman and Byzantine Asia Minor (BAR Int. Ser. 156), ed. S. Mitchell. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1983
- IV The official history of Heraclius' Persian campaigns The Roman and Byzantine Army in the East, ed. E. Dąbrowa. Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1994
- V Armenian historians of Heraclius: an examination of the aims, sources and working-methods of Sebeos and Movses Daskhurantsi The Reign of Heraclius (610-641): Crisis and Confrontation, ed. G.J. Reinink and B.H. Stolte. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2002
- VI Al-Tabari on the last great war of Antiquity First publication
- VII The siege of Constantinople in 626 Constantinople and its Hinterland, ed. C. Mango and G. Dagron. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1995
- VIII Heraclius' Persian campaigns and the revival of the Eastern Roman Empire, 622-630 War in History 6. London, 1999
- IX Pride and fall: Khusro II and his regime, 626-628 La Persia e Bisanzio (Atti dei Convegni Lincei 201), ed. G. Gnoli. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2004
- Addenda and corrigenda
- Index