English Explanatory Dictionary

Late antiquity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. Misspelling of Late Antiquity.
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  1. 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.
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  1. Alternative letter-case form of Late Antiquity.

Word forms

Late antiquity

Etymology

A calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown with his influential 1971 book The World of Late Antiquity.

Related words

late antique Early Islam Early Middle Ages
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