Combining a wealth of literary material, a flare for swashbuckling narrative, and the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries available, Heather endeavours to achieve a critical realignment of the traditional and often contradictory views of Justinian's attempt to reconstitute the West at the point of a sword.

P.J. Heather. Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMRC). Review by Tom Campbell-Moffat, University College London