From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565

Lee not only provides his readers with the most up-to-date Anglophone scholarship, but also takes note of key publications in French, German and Italian, thus transcending this book’s primary target audience of students — many of whom will rarely have mastered all relevant languages — and making it just as valuable for scholars… As it stands, this is the most thorough yet accessible overview of Imperial Rome’s twilight centuries since Ernst Stein’s Histoire du Bas-Empire. The present reviewer could think of no higher endorsement. – Jeroen Wijnendaele, Ghent University * Acta Classica *
The book has many virtues. Accuracy, as Housman remarked, is a duty not a virtue, but Lee is extremely accurate in comparison to some of his competitors. University students must surely comprise the majority of the target audience and Lee does not forget the book’s didactic purpose… A fine achievement. – Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
This rich, clear analytical narrative of two centuries of dramatic change unravels the complexities of seismic religious transformation, major cultural realignment as well as the political and military changes that shifted Europe’s focus from Rome to Byzantium and that still influence the shape of Europe. An excellent overview of the period. – Michael Whitby * University of Birmingham *

Doug Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Information and Frontiers: Late Roman Foreign Relations (1993), Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), and War in Late Antiquity: A Social History (2007), as well as contributing chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History.

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