Reviews

It is a measure of the importance of this work that it should drive historians of urbanism to examine once more their understanding of the Roman city and develop new approaches to explain the undoubted 'transformations' in the urban systems of the Early Byzantine world. Journal of Roman Studies With impressive energy and abundant evidence, Liebeschuetz defends previously slaughtered sacred cows. Journal of Roman Studies This incisive study examines the Empire's decline from the ground up and gives new perspectives and understanding to one of the greatest changes in European and Middle Eastern history. Contemporary Review Deliberately wide-ranging, and comparative, approach. Susan E. Alcock, Times Literary Supplement