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This research volume reassesses one of the most fundamental transformations in Late Antiquity, centered on a pivotal region: the transition from 'Empire' to 'Kingdom' in Italy c. 250-500. During the first quarter of the first millennium, Italy was still the heart of the Roman Empire; the only political superstructure ever managing to encompass the entire Mediterranean world and its European hinterland. Yet during the second quarter of this millennium, Italy underwent dramatic evolutions from demotion to a provincialized region (c. 285-395), to a new imperial hub kept afloat by cannibalizing other provinces' resources (c. 395-476), to an autonomous regnum governed by non-Roman rulers as part of an Eastern Roman 'Commonwealth' (c. 475-535).

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An immensely useful set of essays on Late Roman Italy (250-500 CE). This volume offers a rich array of views and insights. The collection succeeds in presenting not only the state of current scholarship on certain key aspects of late Rome Italy, but also suggests new and important avenues for study.--Michele Renee Salzman, University of California

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele is a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the History Department at Ghent University. He is the author of The Last of the Romans. Bonifatius, warlord and comes Africae (Bloomsbury Academic 2015), and has published various articles and book-chapters on the political and military history of the Late Roman Empire. Dr. Wijnendaele was guest-editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity's 2019 theme-issue on 'Warfare and Food-Supply in the Late Roman Empire'. At the moment, he is preparing a new monograph on Rome's Disintegration. Violence, War, and the End of Empire in the West for Oxford University Press.

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