Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance by Jairus Banaji (2001; 9780199226030) Advanced Economic – Banaji reassessed the rural economy of the late Roman world, going against the previous interpretation of crisis and devastation. His argument is that the stable gold coinage introduced by Diocletian in AD 301, coupled with the restructuring…

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (4th ed.) by Richard Krautheimer (1986; ISBN 9780300052961) Intermediate Cultural A superb survey of late Roman architecture by one of the masters of the field. Although the book focuses on churches (the era’s most impressive and best-preserved monuments), it discusses secular architecture as well. Late Roman Fortifications by Stephen Johnson…

Ecclesiastical Factionalism and Religious Controversy in Fifth-Century Gaul by Ralph Mathisen (1989; ISBN 978-0813206585) PhD-Level Political Social Religious – Mathisen’s work is exactly as the title describes – this is a comprehensive history of the Lerins controversy and the ecclesiastical infighting between the Roman Orthodox church and the various “heresies” and ecclesiastical factions in late…

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367–455 by Meghan McEvoy – (2013; 978-0199664818) PhD-Level Political Social Religious – While some authors will choose to cast the child emperors of late antiquity as “weak,” “ineffectual,” or even “immoral,” and most to simply gloss over them, Meghan McEvoy’s work directly addresses the fundamentals of…

See also Guy Halsall’s handlist ‘Translations of Primary Sources: AD 300-800’. https://600transformer.blogspot.com/p/translations-of-primary-sources-c300.html

The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD, 3rd Ed. by Graham Webster (1998; ISBN 978-0806130002) Advanced Military Cultural – Webster’s work is more than an overview of the organization of the Roman army, but it covers everything from equipment, to tactics, to the soldiering culture itself. Webster’s work is fundamentally the…

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy, ed. Walter Scheidel. (2012; ISBN 9780521726887) Intermediate Economic Cambridge Companions are good, and Scheidel is one of the best scholars in the field. This one is more focused on the Roman world, but gives a great overview of both modern studies in the field and more specialized aspects…