| Description |
xxiv, 767 pages ; 24 cm |
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Routledge history of the ancient world |
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Routledge history of the ancient world.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Dynastic catastrophes -- The government of Constantius -- Julian -- 13.The Struggle for Control: 355--66 -- The control of religion -- Asceticism -- The imperial ascetic and apostate -- Julian in Gaul -- Julian Augustus -- The restoration of the gods -- Antioch, Persia, and catastrophe -- Valentinian and Valens -- Procopius and the end of the Constantinian dynasty -- 14.The End of Hegemony: 367--95 -- Adrianople and the Frigidus -- Emperors and their courts: 364--95 -- Emperors and bishops -- Rituals of violence and reconciliation -- The view from Antioch -- From Libanius to Alaric -- Conclusion: Change in the Roman Empire |
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Contents note continued: Origen and Hippolytus: classical thought and Christianity -- The power of tradition -- pt. III THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS NEIGHBORS: 225--99 -- 6.The Failure of the Severan Empire -- The impact of the Sasanids -- The Roman view -- The government of Gordian III -- Historiography and the war with Persia -- Philip, Rome, and the millennium -- Decius, history, historiography, and the "Skythai" -- The aftermath of Abritus: Gallus and Sapor -- The fall of the Severan empire -- The empire of Gallienus -- 7.The Emergence of a New Order -- Claudius Gothicus -- The restoration of the central government -- The legacy of Aurelian -- The search for stability -- The creation of the Tetrarchy: 284--93 -- Rome and Persia -- The restorers of the whole world -- pt. IV THE CONSTANTINIAN EMPIRE -- 8.Alternative Narratives: Manichaeans, Christians, and Neoplatonists -- Alternative narratives: 260--303 -- The revelations of Mani -- Christians and the imperial government -- |
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Contents note continued: Plotinus and Porphyry -- Alternative polytheisms -- 9.Rewritings of the Tetrarchy: 300--13 -- Reconstruction: 300--03 -- Persecution and politics: 303--05 -- The succession -- Constantinian historiography and the collapse of the Tetrarchy: 305--07 -- Oriens Augustus: the ascent of Constantine: 307--11 -- The conversion of Constantine and the end of the Tetrarchy: 311--13 -- 10.Restructuring the State: 313--37 -- Licinius in the east -- The government of the empire -- The victory of Constantine -- The New Rome -- The imperial aristocracy -- Urban elites -- 11.Constructing Christianity in an Imperial Context -- Donatists -- The Arians -- Athanasius -- Christianity and government -- The architecture of coexistence: Rome, Constantinople, and the Holy Land -- The vision of Constantine -- pt. V LOSING POWER -- 12.Church and State: 337--55 -- Christianity and foreign relations -- The Roman army -- The death of Constantine -- The sons of Constantine -- Persia -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE SHAPE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- 1.Culture, Ecology, and Power -- Power -- Ecology -- Cult and culture -- 2.Government -- The divisions of the land -- The revenues of the state -- The emperor and his officials -- The governing classes -- pt. II RESHAPING THE OLD ORDER -- 3.Crises in Government -- The reign of Commodus -- The new emperor -- Murder -- Revolution -- Civil war -- The solidification of power -- Alternative realities -- The succession -- 4.The Army in Politics; Lawyers in Government -- The Roman army -- The murder of Geta: the politics of pay and citizenship -- Caracalla on the march -- Death in the desert -- The emperor Macrinus -- The new regime -- Elagabalus ascendant -- The age of Ulpian -- Alexander Severus -- Maximinus Thrax -- 5.Intellectual Trends in the Early Third Century -- Fish, food, and sophists -- The sophist and the sage -- The war at Troy -- Reacting and inventing -- Plato's new world -- |
| Summary |
"The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion, Christianity"-- |
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"The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion, Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire, setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire.The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative than it was in the past. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students, this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period"-- |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences) -- Rome.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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| LC no. |
2013018120 |
| ISBN |
9780415840545 (hardback) |
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9780415840552 (paperback) |
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