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100	1		_aStephenson, Paul.
245	1	0	_aNew Rome : _bthe empire in the east / _cPaul Stephenson.
250			_aFirst Harvard University Press edition.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2022, ©2021.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_axii, 432 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered pages of plates : _bcolor illustrations, maps ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart 1. Life in the later Roman world: Life at the end of the 'Lead Age' -- Family and faith -- An empire of cities -- Culture, communications, commerce -- Constantinople, the new Rome -- Part 2. Power and politics: The Theodosian Age, AD 395-451 -- Soldiers and civilians, AD 451-527 -- The Age of Justinian, AD 527-602 -- The Heraclians, AD 602-c. 700 -- Part 3: The end of antiquity: The end of ancient civilisation -- Apocalypse and the end of antiquity -- Emperors of New Rome.
520			_a"In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically-minded interpretation of antiquity's end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA. From these and other sources, we learn that pollution and pandemics influenced the fate of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. During its final five centuries, the empire in the east survived devastation by natural disasters, the degradation of the human environment, and pathogens previously unknown to the empire's densely populated, unsanitary cities. Despite the Plague of Justinian, regular "barbarian" invasions, a war with Persia, and the rise of Islam, the empire endured as a political entity. However, Greco-Roman civilization, a world of interconnected cities that had shared a common material culture for a millennium, did not"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCivilization, Greco-Roman.
650		0	_aRomans _zMiddle East.
651		0	_aByzantine Empire _xHistory _y527-1081.
651		0	_aByzantine Empire _xHistory _yTo 527.
651		0	_aIslamic Empire _xHistory.
651		0	_aIstanbul (Turkey) _xHistory _yTo 1453.
651		0	_aMiddle East _xHistory _yTo 622.
651		0	_aRome _xHistory.
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