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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study will prompt further reassessments of the other Roman provinces and of medieval Spanish history.
Trade ReviewLate antiquity is emerging as a field in its own right, and an earlier review... noted three essential works. Kulikowski's is a fourth. Choice 2005 This book makes a valuable contribution with its vivid presentation and synthesis of recent Spanish archaeological research. -- Rachel L. Stocking Speculum 2006 Kulikowski has succeeded in laying the foundations for ever more detailed enquiries about the history of a period which scholars are less and less ready to characterize as 'of limited interest' and 'transitional.' -- Patrick Le Roux Mediterranean Historical Review 2005 Kulikowski's book is one of extraordinary sweep, vision, and scholarship... Provides a comprehensive picture of Roman urban institutions and society in Spain, as well as a detailed examination of their transformation into the Christian world of the early Middle Ages in a fashion that is at once accessible, informed, and illuminating. -- Evan W. Haley American Historical Review 2005 A valuable and fascinating contribution... which shows us how the history of this period should be written. -- John Richardson Catholic Historical Review 2006 This thought-provoking and stimulating study demands a fundamental reappraisal of some of the long-standing assumptions of social and urban transformation: not only in Spain, but in the western empire as a whole. -- A. H. Merrills Early Medieval Europe 2005 Well-produced and easy to use... Extremely useful. -- Gareth Sears Journal of Roman Studies 2007 A powerful and important contribution to debates about the nature of the peninsula at this time. -- A. T. Fear Classical Review 2007 Has the merit of introducing the Anglophone reader reader to the most recent archaeological research from Spain and Portugal, a subject he knows very well. -- Jose Carlos Saquete Ancient West and East 2009
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Creation of Roman Spain
2. Urban Institutions in the Principate
3. Urban Institutions in the Third and Fourth Centuries
4. Diocletian and the Spanish Fourth Century
5. Change in the Spanish City
6. Town and Country
7. Imperial Crisis and Recovery
8. The End of Roman Spain
9. The Aftermath of Empire
10. The Impact of Christianity in the Fifth Century
11. The Earlier Sixth Century and the Goths in Spain
12. The New World of the Sixth Century
Appendix 1: The Epistula Honorii
Appendix 2: Magistrates of Late Roman Spain
Notes
Bibliography
Index
