If you're interested in that period, I would recommend Peter Brown's book, The World of Late Antiquity. If you don't have access to a library, you can get it in paper back at Amazon.com for pretty cheap. It is aimed at the general reader rather than academic specialists and gives a good overview of the period. It also shows how the different successors of the Roman empire (Islamic, Byzantine and Latin Christian) gradually diverged and became their own distinct civilizations.Originally Posted by fenir
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