428 AD

428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire follows a single year across the late Roman world, using its apparent ordinariness to show an empire changing around the Mediterranean. Giusto Traina moves from court politics and frontier pressures to religious and social change, linking developments in the western provinces with the increasingly important eastern empire.

Translated by Allan Cameron and with a preface by Averil Cameron, this Princeton University Press paperback is a compact, readable study of Late Antiquity for readers who want to understand the Roman world at the threshold of the medieval period.