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Evagrius and His Legacy eds. by Joel Kalvesmaki and Robin Darling Young (review)

But it is in looking at the frontiers that Kulikowski has made his most impressive changes. devoting an entire chapter to “eurasian history,” he brings the disruptions on rome’s frontiers into a global perspective. although “contemporaries on both sides of the frontier had little real idea of what was going on” (p. 154), we can now see that the movements of the third century brought rome for the first time into broader eurasian history. later roman history “cannot be understood without reference to this much wider world” (p.119). This chapter is an example of the way Kulikowski has been able to harvest studies of a wide variety of non-literary evidence—from prosopography, numismatics, archaeology, anthropology, and even epidemiology—to bring much-needed clarity to a period that, when seen primarily through roman literary sources, has often seemed murky and confusing. His book might easily have been titled “The long Third century,” for its real strength is the way Kulikowski knits this century into the fabric of an imperial program that began in the second century and was not fully completed until the middle of the fourth.