Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity - Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance, 2001, 278 p. -

This book is a critique of Weber's influential ideas about late antiquity. It collects together a vast range of evidence to show that the 4th to 7th centuries were a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold. The book traces the evolution of a new aristocracy in the eastern Mediterranean, and discusses the implications of its involvment in the monetary and business economy of the period.