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The non-textbook readings fro for each week will be linked to here. You'll need your Fordham privileges to access them

Week 1: optional, but strongly recommended, the first few pages of: Ward-Perkins, Bryan. 2006. The Fall of Rome and the end of civilization. (Oxford: Oxford University Press.)

Week 2

  • Read Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages. Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800_ (OUP 2005), 1–15
  • Read Mitchell, Stephen, A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284–641: The transformation of the ancient world. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 1-15. (Course textbook. I've given you a pdf here, but you should buy this book, please.)
  • O'Donnell on Heather, Ward-Perkins in BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-07-69.html
  • Bring to class photocopies of a map from each of these 2 books.
  • Experiment with Carto and google sheets

Week 7

  • Harries, Jill, "Christianity and the city in Late Roman Gaul." in Rich ed. The City in Late Antiquity (London : Routledge, 1992), 77-98.
  • Kulikowski, Michael. "Archaeological and Historical Categories of Evidence in the Transition from the Ancient World to the Middle Ages," in Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies, ed. Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 171–184

Week 8

  • Brunner, Karl. "Continuity and Discontinuity of Roman Agricultural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages." In Del Sweeney, ed., Agriculture in the Middle Ages - Technology, Practice, and Representation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), 21-40.

  • Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The fall of Rome and the end of civilization. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) 139–148

Week 9

  • Brown, Peter. The world of Late Antiquity AD 150–750. (Library of World Civilizations. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971), 115–135.

  • Brown, Peter. “Relics and Social Status in the Age of Gregory of Tours,” in idem. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) 222–251.

  • Optional but great Brown, Peter. "introduction" in idem. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) 3–21

Week 10

  • Bowes, Kim, “Early Christian archaeology: A state of the field.” Religion Compass 2.4 (2008): 575–619.

Week 11

  • Kim Bowes, “Ivory Lists: Consular diptychs, Christiana appropriation and polemics of time in Late Antiquity” Art History 24.3 (June 2001):338--357

  • Leader-Newby, Ruth E, Introduction in, Silver and society in Late Antiquity: Functions and meanings of silver plate in the fourth to seventh centuries. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004), 1–10

Week 12

  • Elsner, Jaś, “Late Antique art: The problem of the concept and the cumulative aesthetic.” in Approaching Late Antiquity: The transformation from early to late empire. Edited by Simon Swain and Mark Edwards (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004), 271–309.

Week 13

  • Arthur, Paul. 2007. “Form, function and technology in pottery production from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages,” in Technology in transition, A.D. 300–650. Edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini, and Alexander Sarantis (Late Antique Archaeology 4. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.) 159–186.

Week 14

  • Peter Brown, “Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne,” review, Daedalus, Vol. 103, No. 1: Twentieth-Century Classics Revisited (Winter, 1974), pp. 25–33
  • Barnish, S. J. B. "The Transformation of Classical Cities and the Pirenne Debate." Journal of Roman Archaeology 2 (1989): 385-400

Week 15

  • Mitchell, Stephen. A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284–641: The transformation of the ancient world. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 465–492