John Moorhead

Definitely geared to the college textbook survey, Moorhead is a strict "gradualist", viz. he holds that the end of Antiquity was a gradual not necessarily tramatic process. See Peter Brown and Henri Pirenne for this concept. Overall, not bad: he takes account of some archaeological evidence, which is sorely needed in histories of this period and takes a region by region approach in his chapters. The writing is not great and sentences like this can use some help: "Such events were a reminder that the surviving Empire hovered like a gigantic cloud to the east of the first post-Roman states around the western shores of the Mediterranean, and there were voices encouraging any imperial ambitions to recover lost ground." There are better books but the 2001 publishing date definitely takes account of later research. Worth a look.… (plus d'informations)