General Bibliography (books only), with call numbers if at UVM


Alföldi, A. A Conflict of Ideas in the Late Roman Empire: the Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I. 1952. DG323 .A33 1979b
Alföldi, A. The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome. 1948. BR180 .A4
Anatolios, K. Athanasius: the Coherence of His Thought. BR1720.A7 A74 1998
Ando, Clifford. Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire. 2000. DG59.A2 A64 2000
Ando, Clifford. The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. 2008. BL803 .A53 2008
Ando, Clifford. Roman Religion. 2003. BL803 .R66 2003
Arnheim, M.T.W. The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire. 1972. JC85 .S4 A75

Bagnall, R.S. Egypt in Late Antiquity.1993. DT93 .B33 1993
Bagnall, R.S., et al. Consuls of the Later Roman Empire. QUARTO DG83.5 .C7 C68 1987
Barker, J.W. Justinian and the Later Roman Empire. 1966. DF572 .B35
Barnes, T.D. Constantine and Eusebius. 1981. DG315 .B35
Barnes, T.D. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine. 1982. DG313 .B3
Barnes, T.D. Athanasius and Constantius: theology and politics in the Constantinian Empire. 1993. BR1720.A7 B37 1993
Barnwell, P.S. Emperor, Prefects, and Kings: the Roman West, 395-565. 1992. JC89 .B36 1992ftp 132.198.123.158
Barrow, R.H. Prefect and Emperor: the Relationes of Symmachus AD 384. 1973. PA6704.S7 B3 1973
Baynes, N.H. Byzantine Studies and Other Essays. 1955. DF503 .B33
Baynes, N.H. Constantine the Great and the Christian church. 1929.
Birley, A.R. Marcus Aurelius: a Biography. 1987. DG297 .B5 1987
Birley, A.R. The Fasti of Roman Britain. 1981. LRA DA145 .B595
Blockley, R.C. Ammianus Marcellinus: a Study of his Historiography and Political Thought. 1975. DG206.A4 B57 1975
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, 2 vols.  1981-3. DG310 .B56 1981
Bowder, D. The Age of Constantine and Julian. 1978. DG315 .B68 1978
Bowersock, G.W. Fiction as History: Nero to Julian. 1994. PA6019 .B68 1994
Bowersock, G.W. Hellenism in Late Antiquity. 1990. DF240 .B69 1990
Bowersock, G.W. Julian the Apostate. 1978. DG317 .B68
Bowersock, G.W. Martyrdom and Rome. 1995. BR1604.2 .B68 1995
Bowersock, G.W., P. Brown, O. Grabar, edd. Late Antiquity: a guide to the postclassical World 1999. DE5 .L29 1999 (in Reference room)
Brakke, D. Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism. 1995. BR1720.A7 B73 1995
Brown, P.R.L. Augustine of Hippo: a biography. 1967, 2000. BR1720.A9 B7 1967b (2000)
Brown, P.R.L. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: towards a Christian Empire. 1992. DG311 .B76 1992
Brown, P.R.L. Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine. 1972
Brown, P.R.L. The Making of Late Antiquity. 1978. DG312 .B76
Brown, P.R.L. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000. 1996, 2003. BR162.2 .B76 1996 (2003)
Brown, P.R.L. The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750. 1971. DG77 .B73
Brown, P.R.L. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity. 1981. BL805 .B74 1981
Browning, R. The Emperor Julian. 1975. DG317 .B76 1976
Burckhardt, J. The Age of Constantine the Great. 1983 reprint. DG315 .B923 1983
Bury, J.B. A History of the Later Roman Empire from the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian. 2 vols, 1923. DG311 .B98

Cameron, A. and P. Garnsey, The Cambridge Ancient History, vol.13. 1998.
Cameron, Alan. Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine World. 1985. LRA NX180.S6 C35 1985
Cameron, Averil. Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: the Development of Christian Discourse. 1991. BR67 .C26 1991
Cameron, Averil. The Later Roman Empire. AD 284-430. 1993. DG311 .C36 1993
Cameron, Averil. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600. 1993. DE71 .C25 1993
Castelli, Elizabeth Anne. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. 2004. BR1601.3 .C37 2004
Chadwick, H. Augustine. 1986. B655.Z7 C46 1986
Chadwick, H. Boethius, the Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy. 1981. B659.Z7 C45
Chadwick, H. Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition: Studies in Justin, Clement, and Origen. 1966. BR65.C646 C53
Chadwick, H. The Early Church. 1968. BR165 .C48 1968
Chadwick, H. Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church. 1991. BR165 .C483 1991
Chadwick, H. Priscillian of Avila: the Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Church. 1976. LRA BT1465 .C44
Charanis, P. Church and state in the Later Roman Empire: the Religious Policy of Anastasius the First, 491-518. 1974. DF567 .C45
Christensen, A. Lactantius the historian: an analysis of De mortibus persecutorum. 1980.
Chuvin, Pierre. A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, trans. B.A. Archer. 1990. BR128.R7 C58 1990A
Clover, F.M. and R.S. Humphreys. Tradition and Innovation in Late Antiquity. 1989. DE59 .T7 1989
Cochrane, C.N. Christianity and classical Culture: a Study of Thought ad Action from Augustus to Augustine. 1944. LRA BR170 .C6 1944
Coleman-Norton, P.R. Roman State and Christian Church: a Collection of Legal Documents to A.D. 535. 1966. 3 vols. KJA200 .C64 1966
Cox, P. Biography in Late Antiquity: a Quest for the Holy Man. 1983. PA3043 .C6 1983
Creed, J.L. Lactantius: De mortibus persecutorum. 1984. BR65.L23 D43513 1984
Cross, F.L. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.1957. 2d edition 1974, 1985, 3d edition 1997. BR95 .O8 (+1974, 1985, 1997)
Cumont, F. After Life in Roman Paganism. 1922. BL815.F8 C9
Cumont, F. Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism. 1911. BL805 .C8
Cumont, F. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. 1960. BL721 .C8 1960
Curran, J.R. Pagan City and Christian Capital. Rome in the Fourth Century. 1999. BR205 .C87 1999

De Ste. Croix, G.E.M. Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy. 2006. BR1604.23 .D4 2006
Digeser, E. The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome. 1999 BR65.L26 D54 2000
Dodds, E.R. Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine. 1965. BL53 .D6
Downey, G. Late Roman Empire. 1969. DG311 .D65
Drake, H.A. Constantine and the bishops: the politics of intolerance. 2000 DG315 .D72 2000
Drake, H.A. In praise of Constantine: a historical study and new translation of Eusebius' tricennial orations. 1976 DG315 .D73
Dvornik, F. Early Christian and Byzantine political philosophy. 1966.
Dvornik, F. Ecumenical Councils. 1961. BX825 .D9

Evans Grubbs, J. Law and family in late antiquity: the Emperor Constantine's marriage legislation. 1995. KJA2233 .G78 1995

Fears, J.R. Princeps a diis electus: the Divine Election of the Emperor as Political Concept at Rome. 1977. JC85.E5 F4
Fossier, R. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. I. 350-950. 1986. CB351 .M7813 1986
Fowden, G. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. 1993. DF531 .F69 1993
Frank, K.S., trans. Lienhard, J.T. With Greater Liberty: a Short History of Christian Monasticism and Religions Orders. 1993. BX2461.2 .F713 1993
Freeman, Charles. A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State. 2009. BR217 .F744 2009
Frend, W.H.C. The Donatist church: a Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa. 1971. LRA BT1370 .F7 1971
Frend, W.H.C. The Rise of the Monophysite Movement; Chapters in the History of the Church in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries. 1972. BT1425 .F73
Frend, W.H.C. Religion, Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries. 1976. BR162.2 .F73
Frend, W.H.C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church; a Study of a Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus. 1965. BR1604.2 .F7 1965

Gaddis, Michael. There is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. 2005. BR1604.23 .G33 2005
Garnsey, P. and R. Saller. Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture. 1987. DG276 .G36 1987
Garnsey, P. Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire. 1970. KJA2196 .G37 1970
Glover, T.R. Life and Letters in the Fourth Century. 1901. DG312 .G5
Goldhill, Simon, ed. The End of Dialogue in Antiquity. 2008. B105 .D48 E53 2008
Grant, Robert M. Greek Apologists of the Second Century. 1988. BT1115 .G7 1988
Gregory, T.E. Vox Populi: Popular Opinions and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D. 1979. BR219 .G73
Grig, Lucy. Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. 2004. BR1609 .G75 2004

Halden, J.F. Byzantium in the seventh Century: the Transformation of a Culture. 1997. DF571 .H75 1990
Harries, J. Law and Empire in Late Antiquity. 1999. KJA2700 .H37 1999
Harries, J., and I. Wood, edd. The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity. 1993. KJA459 .T48 1993
Hedrick, Charles W. History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. CN535 .H43 2000
Herrin, J. The Formation of Christendom. 1987. BR232 .H47 1987
Heyman, George. The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict. 2007. BL570 .H49 2007
Hunt, D. and J.W. Drijvers, edd. The Late Roman World and its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus. 1999. DG206.A4 L37 1999

Jones, A. H. M. The Later Roman Empire. 284-602: A Social. Economic and Administrative Survey. 2v. 1964, 1986. DG311 .J6 1964a
Jones, A.H.M. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe. 1948. BR180 .J6
Jones, A.H.M. et al. Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. 2 vols (260-395; 395-527), London 1971- 80. DG203.5 .J6 (there is a third volume which the library does not own)
Jones, A.H.M. Were Ancient Heresies Disguised Social Movements? 1966. LRA BT1317 .J57

Kelly, Gavin. Ammianus Marcellinus: the Allusive Historian. PA6205 .K39 2008
Kennedy, G.A. Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors. 1983. PA3265 .K43 1983
Kennedy, G.A. Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. 1980, 1999. PN183 .K4 (1999)
Keresztes, Paul. Imperial Rome and the Christians. 1989. BR170 .K4 1989 2 vols.
Klingshirn, W.E. Caesarius of Arles: the Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul. 1994.

Laistner, M.L.W. Christianity and Pagan Culture in the Later Roman Empire: together with an English Translatin of John Chrysostom's Address on Vainglory and the Right Way for Parents to Bring up their Children. 1951. BR203 .L27
Lane Fox, R. Pagans and Christians: Religion and the Religious Life from the Second to the Fourth Century A.D. 1987. BR128.R7 L36 1987
Lee, A.D. Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: a Sourcebook. 2000. BR128.R7 L44 2000
Lenski, Noel. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. 2006. DG315 .C36 2006
Lenski, Noel. Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. 2002. DF559 .L46 2002
Lewis, Naphtali, and Meyer Reinhold. Roman Civilization: Selected Readings. 3rd ed. 1990. Vol II. Library has first edition 1951-1955. DG13 .L4
Liebeschuetz, J.H.W.G. Barbarians and Bishops: Army, Church, and State in the Reign of Arcadius and Chrysostom. 1990. DF543 .L33 1990
Liebeschuetz, J.H.W.G. Continuity and Change in Roman Religion. 1979. BL802 .L53
Lienhard, J.T. Paulinus of Nola and Early Western Monasticism. 1977.
Lienhard, J.T. Contra Marcellum: Marcellus of Ancyra and Fourth-Century Theology. 1999. BR1720.M2824 L54 1999
Lieu, S.N.C. and D. Montserrat, From Constantine to Julian. Pagan and Byzantine Views: a Source History. 1996. BR180 .F76 1996
Lieu, S.N.C., and D. Montserrat. Constantine: History, Historiography, and Legend. 1998. DG315 .C65 1998
Lieu, S.N.C. Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China: a Historical Survey. 1985. BT1410 .L47 1985
Lim, Richard. Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity. 1995. BR205 .L56 1995
Livingstone, E. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2d edition abridged. 1977. BR95 .O82 1977
L'Orange, H.-P. Apotheosis in Ancient Portraiture. 1980. N7580 .L6
L'Orange, H.-P. Studies on the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship in the Ancient World. 1982. LRA N7580 .L62 1982

Maas, Michael. Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook. 1999. DG78 .M22 2000
MacCormack, S. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. 1981. DG124 .M33
MacMullen, R. Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary. 1990. DG77 .M28 1990
MacMullen, R. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. 1997. BR170 .M33 1997
MacMullen, R. Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400). 1984. BR195.E9 M33 1984
MacMullen, R. Constantine. 1969. DG315 .M3
MacMullen, R. Corruption and the Decline of Rome. 1988. DG270 .M33 1988
MacMullen, R. Enemies of the Roman Order: Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the Empire. 1966. DG78 .M33
MacMullen, R. and E.N. Lane Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E.: a Sourcebook. 1992. BR128.R7 P34 1992
MacMullen, R. Paganism in the Roman Empire. 1981. BL802 .M32
MacMullen, R. Roman Government's Response to Crisis, A.D. 235-337. 1976. DG306 .M3
MacMullen, R. The Second Church: Popular Christianity A.D. 200-400. 2009. BR165 .M14 2009
Marenbon, J. Boethius. 2003. B659.Z7 M346 2003
Mathisen, R.W. Law, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity. 2001. KJ135 1997b
Mathisen, R.W. Ecclesiastical Factionalism and Religious Controversy in Fifth-Century Gaul. 1989 BR844 .M34 1989
Mathisen, R.W. People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity. 2003. DG78 .M378 2003
Matthews, J.F. Laying down the Law: a Study of the Theodosian Code. 2000. KJA457 .M38 2000
Matthews, J.F. Political life and Culture in Late Roman Society. 1985. DG272 .M37 1985
Matthews, J.F. The Roman Empire of Ammianus. 1990. DG316.7 .M38 1989
Matthews, J.F. Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, A.D. 364-425. 1975. DG319 .M37
McCormick, M. Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Medieval West. 1987. DG89 .M25 1987
McLynn, N. Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital. 1994. BR1720.A5 M37 1994
Miles, R. Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity. 1999. DG78 .C585 1999
Mitchell, S., and G. Greatrex. Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity. 2000
Molinari, Andrea Lorenzo. Climbing the Dragon's Ladder: the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. 2006. PS3615.O45 C55 2006
Momigliano, A. The Conflict between paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. 1963. BR205 .M6
Momigliano, A. On Pagans, Jews, and Christians. 1987. BL810 .M66 1987
Mommsen, T. A History of Rome under the Emperors. 1996. DG270 .M6513 1996
Moorhead, J. Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World. 1999. BR1720.A5 M66 1999

Nash, E. A Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. 2 vols, 1968. Ref QUARTO NA280 .T68
Nixon, C.E.V. and B. Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: the Panegyrici Latini. Introduction, Translation and Historical Commentary. 1994. PA6166 .P36 1994
Noble, Thomas F.X. and Thomas Head. Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. 1995. BX4659.E85 S65 1995
Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion; the Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo. 1933. BL85 .N65 and 1961. BL639 .N63 1961
Nock, Arthur Darby. Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, selected and edited, with an introduction, bibliography of Nock's writings, and indexes, by Zeph Stewart. 1972. BL50 .N562

O'Donnell, J.J. Cassiodorus. 1979. BR1720.C4 O36. You can also read this book online
O'Donnell, J.J. Augustine. 1985. BR65.A62 O36 1985

Palmer, A.-M. Prudentius on the Martyrs. 1989. PA6648.P6 P477 1989
Penella, R.J. Greek philosophers and sophists in the fourth Century A.D.: Studies in Eunapius of Sardis. 1990.
Pleket, H. and A. Verhoogt (eds) Power and Possession: State. Society and Church during the Fourth Century A.D. 1997.
Price, S.R.F. Rituals and Power: the Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. 1984. DG124 .P74 1984

Reiss, E. Boethius. 1982. B659.Z7 R44 1982
Rike, R.L. Apex Omnium. Religion in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus. 1987. DG206.A4 R55 1987
Roldanus, Johannes. The Church in the Age of Constantine: the Theological Challenges. 2006. BR205 .R65 2006
Rousseau, Philip. Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian. 1978. BV5023 .R68
Rousseau, Philip. Pachomius: the Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt. 1985. BR1720.P23 R68 1985
Rousseau, Philip. Basil of Caesarea. 1994. BR1720.B3 R68 1994
Rousseau, Philip. Early Christian Centuries. 2002. BR165 .R82 2002
Rousseau, Philip, ed. A Companion to Late Antiquity. 2009. DE86 .C63 2009
Rousseau, Philip and Manolis Papoutsakis, edd. Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown. 2009. DG77 .T73 2009

Schott, Jeremy M. Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity. BR165 .S398 2008
Sellers, R.V. The Council of Chalcedon; a Historical and Doctrinal Survey. 1961. BR225 .S54 1961
Shahîd, I. Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century. 1984.
Shahîd, I. Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. 1995. DS38 .S42 1988
Shahîd, I. Rome and the Arabs. 1984.
Shahîd, I. Byzantium and the Semitic Orient before the Rise of Islam. 1988. DS38 .S42 1988
Sivan, H. and R. Mathisen. Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity. 1996. DG272 .S55 1996
Sizgorich, Thomas. Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam. 2009. BT736.15 .S57 2009
Smith, M. Prudentius' Psychomachia. 1976. BR65.P783 S6

Taylor, L.R. The Divinity of the Roman Emperor. 1931. DG124 .T3
Thomas, C. Christianity in Roman Britain to A.D. 500. 1981. BR748 .T43
Thompson, E.A. Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the End of Roman Britain. 1984. DA145 .T43 1984
Thompson, E.A. The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus. 1947. PA6205 .T5

Valantasis, Richard, ed. Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. 2000. BL690 .R46 2000

Wallace-Hadrill, A. Patronage in Ancient Society. 1989. DG83.3 .P34 1989
Walsh, P.G. Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, [trans.] 1999. B659.D472 E5 1999
Walsh, P.G. The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated with introduction and explanatory notes. 1994. PS6209.M3 W35 1994
Watts, D. Pagans and Christians in Roman Britain. 1991.
Whittaker, Molly. Jews and Christians: Graec-Roman Views. 1984. DS115.5 .W48 1984
Wilkinson, J. Egeria's Travels to the Holy Land, newly translated with supporting documents and notes. 1981. BR167 .P471 1981
Wilkinson, J. Egeria's Travels: newly translated, with supporting documents and notes. 1999. DS104.5 .I813 1999