Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Table of Contents
A: The Roman Empire, to the third century
B: Late Antiquity
Augustus
Imperial government and administration
From the third-century crisis to the Tetrarchy
The Roman economy
Imperial cult and Roman religion
Gender and sexuality
Slavery and Roman society
Overviews
From Constantine to Julian
The Christianization of the Empire
The emergence of monasticism
Towns and economic change
Overviews
Barbarian invasion and settlement
Vandal Africa
Ostrogothic Italy
Visigothic Spain
Merovingian Gaul and the Franks
Byzantium in the age of Justinian
The world of early Islam
Central and Eastern Europe
Byzantium in the eighth and ninth centuries
The Carolingian Empire
The vikings
Early medieval kingship
Early medieval queenship
Law and legislation
Towns and economic development
Men and women in the early Middle Ages
The Church
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The entries given here for each topic offer only very select reading lists. A more comprehensive and
detailed bibliography can be found on the Paper 13 Camtools site. A separate reading list prepared
by Dr Paul Millet also supplements the entries given here for Roman history.
Collected sources,
Res gestae divi Augusti,
Suetonius, Divus Augustus,
268,
Tacitus, Annals, I.12,
Cassius Dio, Roman
History, LI.1, LIII.211,
General reading:
AUGUSTUS
ed. M. Cooley, trans. B. Wilson The Age of Augustus (2003)
ed. and trans. A. Cooley, Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation,
and Commentary (2009)
trans. R. Graves, Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars, rev. J. Rives
(London, 2007) [other translations available as Lives of the Caesars]
trans. A. Woodman, Tacitus: The Annals (2004) [among other available
translations]
ed. and trans. E. Cary, Dios Roman History (191427) [among other
available translations]
A. Bowman, E. Champlin
and A. Lintott (eds.),
D. Favro,
K. Galinsky,
K. Galinsky,
A. Powell (ed.)
D. Shotter,
M. Vessey (ed.),
C. Wells,
P. Zanker,
Tacitus:
J. Ginsburg,
C. Krauss and A. Woodman,
V. Pagn (ed.),
C. Pelling,
P. Sinclair,
B. Williams,
A. Woodman (ed.),
and 8]
IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
AND ADMINISTRATION
Sources:
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
General reading:
D. Braund (ed.),
The Administration of the Roman Empirer (241 BCAD 193) (1988)
P. Garnsey and R. Saller,
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (1989) [Part I]
P. Garnsey and R. Saller,
The Early Principate: Augustus to Trajan (1982)
P. Garney and C. Whittaker Imperialism in the Ancient World (1978) [see chapters by Garnsey and
Nutton]
(eds.),
B. Levick,
Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration (1993)
F. Millar,
The emperor, the senate and the provinces, Journal of Roman
Studies56 (1966), 15666
F. Millar,
Empire and city, Augustus to Julian: obligations, excuses and status,
Journal of Roman Studies 73 (1983), 7696
Sources:
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
General reading:
A. Bowman, A. Cameron
and P. Garnsey (eds.),
A. Cameron,
A. Jones,
N. Lenski (ed.),
F. Millar,
[ch. 2]
R. MacMullen,
D. Potter,
P. Southern,
A. Watson,
C. Ando,
A. Birley,
L. de Blois,
J. Liebeschuetz,
B. Leadbetter,
S. Williams,
Sources:
Collected sources,
Reading:
R. Duncan-Jones,
R. Duncan-Jones,
M. Finley,
P. Garnsey,
P. Garnsey, K. Hopkins
and C. Whittaker (eds.),
K. Greene,
K. Hopkins,
C. Whittaker (ed.),
Sources:
Collected sources,
Reading:
Imperial cult:
J. Fears,
I. Gradel,
S. Price,
S. Price,
Sources:
Collected sources,
Reading:
M. Beard,
S. Dixon,
C. Edwards,
R. Flemming,
J. Gardner,
S. Pomeroy,
A. Rouselle,
M. Skinner,
Sources:
Collected sources,
Reading:
K. Bradley,
K. Bradley,
K. Bradley and
P. Cartledge (eds.),
M. Bradley,
M. Finley,
M. Finley,
L. Foxhall,
P. Garnsey,
K. Harper,
W. Harris,
K. Hopkins,
D. Rathbone,
W. Scheidel,
B: Late Antiquity
Overviews:
P. Brown,
P. Garnsey and
C. Humphress,
J. Harries,
O. Hekster,
S. Johnson (ed.),
P. Rousseau and J. Raithel
(eds),
Sources:
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Sources:
Collected sources,
Constantine:
H. Drake,
C. Odahl,
R. Van Dam,
Julian:
P. Athanassiadi,
G. Bowersock,
S. Tougher,
Imperial government:
C. Kelly,
W. Liebeschuetz,
R. MacMullen,
F. Pedersen,
chs. 45]
Late Antiquity
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Introductions:
A. Cameron,
N. Lenski (ed.),
General reading:
P. Brown,
A. Cameron,
P. Chuvin,
A. Fear, J. Urbia and M.
Marcos,
R. Flower,
M Gaddis,
E. Iricinschi and H. Zellentin
(eds.),
J. Leibeschuetz,
R. MacMullen,
A. Momigliano,
E. Rebillard,
Pagan monotheism:
Late Antiquity
S. Hall,
Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church (2nd ed., 2005) [chs. 1216
A. Jones,
A. Jones,
Christological controversies:
H. Chadwick,
H. Chadwick,
R. Sellers,
R. Williams,
and 1922]
R. Van Dam,
W. Liebeschuetz,
R. Rees,
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Late Antiquity
Reading:
D. Brakke,
P. Brown,
P. Brown,
D. Caner,
E. Clarke,
P. Rousseau,
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Late Antiquity
The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (1999)
Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (1996)
Towns and their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (2000)
From public to private: the western barbarian coinages as a mirror of
the disintegration of late Roman state structures, Viator 19 (1988),
2978
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late
Antiquity (2001)
The City in Late Antiquity (1992)
The Pirenne thesis and fifth-century Gaul, in Fifth-Century Gaul: A
Crisis of Identity?, ed. J. Drinkwater and H. Elton (1992), pp. 321
33 [alongside other useful pieces in Part IV]
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A. Murray,
R. McKitterick (ed.),
R. McKitterick (ed.),
P. Sarris,
J. Smith,
C. Wickham,
Sources:
Ammianus Marcellinus,
Res gestae, XXXI.413
Themistius, Orations,
VIII and X
General reading:
A. Cameron,
A. Cameron, B. Ward-Perkins
and M. Whitby (eds.),
N. Christie,
J. Drinkwater,
G. Halsall,
G. Halsall,
P. Heather,
P. Heather,
P. Heather,
L. Little and B. Rosenwein
(eds.),
J. Liebeschuetz,
E. Thompson,
B. Ward-Perkins,
L. Webster and M. Brown
(eds.),
Further discussions:
Regna and Gentes: The Relationship between Late Antique and Early
Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the
Roman World (2003)
Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, AD 407485 (1994)
Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (1996) [esp. ch. 3]
Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late
Antiquity (1997)
Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities,
300800 (1998)
The decline of the Roman Empire and the survival of its aristocracy,
Journal of Roman Studies 66 (1976) 21726
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VANDAL AFRICA
Sources:
Reading:
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OSTROGOTHIC ITALY
Sources:
General reading:
P. Amory,
Anonymous Valesianus
4, 6 and 7]
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VISIGOTHIC SPAIN
Sources:
Introductions:
R. Collins,
R. Collins,
J. OCallaghan,
Further reading:
K. Carr,
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Introductions:
P. Geary,
E. James,
J. Wallace-Hadrill,
I. Wood,
Further reading:
Clovis:
W. Daly,
I. Wood,
Gregory of Tours:
W. Goffart,
M. Heinzelmann,
K. Mitchell,
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Collected sources,
Procopius, Secret History
General reading:
ed. and trans. G. Greatrex and D. Lieu, The Roman Eastern Frontier
and the Persian Wars: A Narrative Sourcebook. Part II, AD 363630: A Narrative Sourcebook (2008) [chs. 69]
trans. G. Williamson and P. Sarris, Procopius: The Secret History
(2007)
A. Cameron,
A. Cameron, B. Ward-Perkins
and M. Whitby (eds.),
P. Heather,
W. Treadgold,
Justinian:
J. Evans,
J. Evans,
C. Foss,
Legal reforms:
C. Humfress,
M. Maas,
Plague and the economy:
L. Little (ed.),
P. Sarris,
P. Sarris,
A. Cameron,
Procopius:
A. Cameron,
A. Kaldellis,
W. Treadgold,
[ch. 5]
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The Quran,
Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah
Sebeos, Armenian History
General reading:
J. Berkey,
P. Crone,
P. Crone,
F. Donner,
H. Kennedy,
H. Kennedy,
C. Robinson (ed.),
Source issues:
P. Crone,
F. Donner,
J. Howard-Johnston,
R. Hoyland,
R. Humphreys,
H. Motzi,
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Reading:
P. Barford,
F. Curta,
F. Curta,
F. Curta,
F. Curta and R. Kovalev (eds.),
F. Dvornik,
J. Fine Jr.,
C. Frazee,
M. Innes,
J. Shepard,
I. Supicic (ed.),
ed. and trans. M. Kantor and R. White, The Vita of Constantine and
the Vita of Methodius (1976)
M. Maas, Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000) [ch. 14]
trans. T. Reuter, The Annals of Fulda, 839911 (1992)
The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Europe
(2001)
The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower
Danube Region, c. 500700 (2001)
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (2005)
Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 5001250 (2006)
The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and
Cumans (2008)
Byzantine Missions among the Slavs: SS Constantine-Cyril and
Methodius (1970)
The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the
Late Twelfth Century (1983) [chs. 14]
The Balkans between Rome and Constantinople in the early Middle
Ages 600900, Balkan Studies 2 (1993), 21328
Franks and Slavs c. 700c. 1000: the problem of European
expansion before the millennium, Early Medieval Europe 6 (1997),
20116
Slavs and Bulgars, in The New Medieval History. Volume II: c.
700c. 900, ed. R. McKitterick (1995), pp. 22849
Croatia in the Early Middle Ages: A Cultural Survey (1999)
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Theophanes, Chronicle,
Nikephoros, Letters
Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Introductions:
M. Angold,
J. Haldon,
C. Mango,
C. Mango (ed.),
J. Shepard (ed.),
W. Treadgold,
M. Whittow,
Iconoclasm:
M.-F. Auzpy,
P. Brown,
L. Brubaker and J. Haldon,
Further issues:
T. Brown,
L. Brubaker (ed.),
G. Dagron,
J. Haldon,
J. Hussey,
A. Laiou and C. Morrisson,
P. Magdalino (ed.),
C. Mango,
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Introductions:
R. McKitterick,
T. Reuter,
Charlemagne:
S. Airlie,
R. McKitterick,
J. Nelson,
J. Story (ed.),
[esp. ch. 4]
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Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German,
817876 (2006)
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and
the End of the Carolingian Empire (2003)
Charles the Fat and the Viking Great Army: the military explanation
for the end of the Carolingian empire, War Studies Journal 3
(1998), 7495
Charles the Bald (1992)
Germany in the Early Middle Ages (1991)
Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Politics and Social Transformation
between Marne and Moselle, c. 800c. 1100 (2013)
R. McKitterick,
J. Nelson,
J. Nelson,
172241]
J. Contreni,
J. Contreni,
R. McKitterick,
R. McKitterick,
R. McKitterick (ed.),
J. Nelson,
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Sources:
Collected sources,
Annals of St-Bertin
Annals of Fulda
Introductions:
S. Brink (ed.),
S. Coupland,
J. Haywood,
K. Helle (ed.),
P. Sawyer (ed.),
THE VIKINGS
trans. A. Somerville and R. McDonald, The Viking Age: A Reader
(2010)
trans. J. Nelson, The Annals of St-Bertin (1991)
trans. T. Reuter, The Annals of Fulda (1992)
The Viking World (2009)
The Vikings in Francia and Anglo-Saxon Englaand to 911, in The
New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume II: c. 700 c. 900, ed.
R. McKitterick (1995), pp. 190201
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (1995)
The Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Volume I: Prehistory to 1520
(2003) [Part II]
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (1997)
The rod of Gods wrath or the people of Gods wrath? The
Carolingian theology of the Viking invasions, Journal of
Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991), 53554
From poachers to gamekeepers: Scandinavian warlords and
Carolingian kings, Early Medieval Europe 7 (1998), 85114
The Frankish tribute payments to the Vikings and their
consequences, Francia 26 (1999), 5775
Playing by whose rules? A further look at Viking atrocity in the
ninth century, Medieval History 2 (1992), 312
Allies of God or man? The Viking expansion in European
perspective, Viator 20 (1989), 4559
Kings and Vikings (1982)
The Vikings in Francia, in his Early Medieval History (1976), pp.
21736
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The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (1999)
Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (1996)
Towns and their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages (2000)
Medieval European Coinage 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th10th
Centuries (1986)
Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities
in North-West Europe, 400900 (2003)
Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade AD 6001000
(2nd ed., 1989)
The Rebirth of Towns in the West (1988)
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 6001150: A
Comparative Archaeology (2013)
The Origins of the European Economy: Communications and
Commerce, AD 300900 (1999)
Markets in Early Medieval Europe (2003)
The City in Late Antiquity (1992)
Aristocrats, Peasants and the Transformation of Rural Society, c.
400800: special issue of Journal of Agrarian Change 9 (2009)
Economic organisation, in The New Cambridge Medieval History.
Volume II: c. 700c. 900, ed. R. McKitterick (1995), pp. 481509
The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (1999)
The Carolingian Economy (2002)
The other transition: from the ancient world to feudalism, Past and
Present 103 (1984), 336
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean,
400800 (Oxford, 2005)
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Collected sources,
Collected sources,
Reading:
D. Baker (ed.),
L. Bitel,
J. Boswell,
L. Brubaker and J. Smith,
S. Cavallo and L. Warner
(eds.),
D. Hadley (ed.),
J. Goody,
J. Smith,
P. Stafford and A. MulderBakker (eds.),
S. Wemple and J. Kirschner
(eds.),
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THE CHURCH
General:
P. Brown,
J. Herrin,
R. Markus,
Missionary activity:
M. Carver,
J.-H. Clay,
F. Dvornik,
R. Fletcher,
J. Palmer,
I. Wood,
P. Brown,
M. Dal Santo,
P. Fouracre,
J. Howard-Johnston and
P. Hayward (eds.),
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