Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

A significant number of antiviral agents used in clinical practice are amino acids, short
peptides, or peptidomimetics. Among them, several HIV protease inhibitors (eg lopinavir …

A series of recent publications, both scholarly and popular, has identified the physical
environment as a primary historical agent in the Roman Empire's development and decline …

Kyle Harper's article on the “Plague of Cyprian” that appeared in this journal in 2015
constitutes the only comprehensive study to date of this important disease outbreak in the …

Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from
the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new …

On the Edge of Empires explores the mixed culture of North Mesopotamia in the Roman
period. This volatile region at the eastern edge of the Roman world became during the …

The author replies to several articles in this issue on disease in Rome. He discusses the
history of epidemics in the Roman Empire, his methodology of doing research and his …

This bibliometric analysis deals with research on the decline and fall of the Western Roman
Empire in connection with climate change. Based on the Web of Science (WoS) database …

The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the
last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields …

Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and
temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and …