Late Antiquity
The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th…The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
Meaning
1 sensesThe period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
Spätantike
по́здняя анти́чностьpózdnjaja antíčnostʹ
Translations
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Origin
A calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown wiA calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown with his influential 1971 book The World of Late Antiquity.
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