Late Roman Intelligence · 250–500 AD
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Lundock reviews Robin Fleming's study of dogs in Roman Britain, a work that uses zooarchaeological and ritual evidence to illuminate lived experience and social inequality in the province.
Lopez Garcia reviews the Machado, Munnery, and Sweetman edited volume on lived spaces in late antiquity, a collection applying spatial and experiential frameworks to the period 250–500 and beyond.
Crow reviews John Matthews's urban history of Constantinople, a work that traces the city's development from its Byzantium phase through the late Roman and early Byzantine centuries.
Machado reviews Lizzani's archaeological reconstruction of the Roman and Latian properties of Symmachus, using the senator's epistolary corpus as a guide to the physical landscape of late Roman elite landholding.
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