Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. — 233 p. — (Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, Band 199). — ISBN Print 9783525208687 — ISBN E-Book 9783647208688. One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into...
Princeton University Press, 1995. — 388 p. This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century, Roger Bagnall draws his evidence mainly from...
Scholars Press, 1987. — 760 p. This book is not so much concerned with consuls as figures in the society of late antiquity as it is devoted to their utility for identifying years: consulates as a means of reckoning time. The compilation of lists of consuls was actively pursued in antiquity, and modern listmakers have not been lacking. But only two scholars have sought, since...
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. – 330 p. – (Oxford Classical Monographs). ISBN: 978-0-19-924440-9 (Hbk.) ISBN: 978-0-19-922603-0 (Pbk.) The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and...
The Macmillan company, 1921. — 630 p. This sketch of the History of Rome to 565 A. D. is primarily intended to meet the needs of introductory college courses in Roman History.
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2005. – 660 p. – (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World. Vol. 24). ISSN: 1569-1934. ISBN: 90-04-14391-2 Introduction. Kim Bowes and Michael Kulikowski Spanish government and Spanish cities Introduction to Part 1 Cities and Government in Late Antique Hispania: Recent Advances and Future Research. Michael Kulikowski Christianity and the church...
Franz Steiner, 1999. Jede Form von Geschichtsinterpretation ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht mit Wirklichkeit befaát und von ihr betroffen: Erstens ist Wirklichkeit weit mehr als die Summe von Fakten und Begebenheiten - erst der kognitive Zugriff auf Vergangenes konstituiert historische Wirklichkeit. Zweitens beeinflussen die äuáeren Entstehungsbedingungen von Wirklichkeitsdeutungen...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — xxx + 759 p. Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 253 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 182). In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The...
Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. — 441 p. The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of...
Fontana Press, 1993. — xvii, 238 p. After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a century, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the organizational drive he brought to the task of putting its administration and defences on a newly secure footing. His successor, Constantine, sustained this consolidation ol impelial...
London - New York: Routledge, 1993. – 270 p. – (Routledge History of the Ancient World). ISBN 0–415–01421–2 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-13420-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-17723-1 (Glassbook Format) «The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395–600» deals with the exciting period commonly known as ‘late antiquity’ – the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman empire in the...
Routledge, 1994. — 214 p. ISBN10: 0713471700 ISBN13: 9780713471700 (end) Under Carausius and his successor Allectus, Britain for a decade (AD 286-96) achieved an independence which threatened the stability of the Roman Empire. With coastal areas of Gaul also forming part of the separatist dominion, the crisis led to the creation of a second tier of imperial rulers. Constantius...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — xii, 137 p. Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a chang-ing social and academic culture. Key issues on early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of...
Clarendon Press, 1993. — 155 p. This book bridges a gap between two traditional disciplines. Since the 1970s, there has been a remarkable outpouring of work on women in antiquity, but women in late antiquity (3rd-6th centuries A.D.) have been far less studied. Classicists have been more concerned with the first two centuries A.D., and theologians have been interested in New...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 208 p. The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide detailed testimonies that have allowed scholars to understand and reconstruct the army’s organization and activities. This interest has...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 192 p. In AD 376 large groups of Goths, seeking refuge from the Huns, sought admittance to the Eastern Roman Empire. Emperor Valens took the strategic decision to grant them entry, hoping to utilize them as a source of manpower for his campaigns against Persia. The Goths had been providing good warriors to Roman armies for decades. However, mistreatment...
Cambridge University Press 2007. — 345 p. This collection of essays traces the central role played by aristocratic patronage in the transformation of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity. Rather than privileging the administrative and institutional developments related to the rise of papal authority as the paramount theme in the post-classical history of the city, as...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 336 p. Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising study suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the fall of...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 389 p. — (Oxford Classical Monographs). — ISBN: 0-19-815278-7 The critical century between the arrival of Constantine and the advance of Alaric in the early 5th century witnessed dramatic changes in the city of Rome. This volume focuses on a number of approaches to the Christianization of Rome. It surveys the laws and political considerations...
Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. — 373 p. Cet ouvrage propose une autre lecture des évènements politiques et militaires du Ve siècle dans l’Occident romain, longtemps résumés par les visions catastrophistes de la chute de l’Empire et des grandes invasions. Il s’intéresse tout particulièrement au devenir des Goths et parmi eux, à ceux qui vont devenir les Wisigoths du...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 378 p. This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single...
Routledge, 1991. — 460 p. The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors, but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period, the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are...
Routledge, 2018. — 230 p. Honorius explores the personal life and tumultuous times of one of the last emperors of the Roman West. From his accession to the throne aged ten to his death at thirty-eight, Honorius’ reign was blighted by a myriad of crises: military rebellions, political conspiracies, barbarian invasions, and sectarian controversies. The notorious sack of the city...
Franz Steiner, 1907. Im römischen Reich sind die meisten staatlichen und städtischen Funktionen auf unterer Ebene nicht von Beamten, sondern von zwangsweise herangezogenen Bürgern durchgeführt worden. Diese Dienste sind die Liturgien oder munera. Ihre Aufgabenbereiche, die Arbeit dieser zwangsverpflichteten Bürger werden genauso beschrieben wie die Art und Weise von deren...
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. – 421 p. ISBN 978-0-19-929568-5 The Alamanni and Rome focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire. From the third century AD, barbarians attacked and then overran the west. Some – Goths, Franks, Saxons – are well known, others less so. The latter include the Alamanni, despite the fact that their name is found in the French...
Oxon - New York: Routledge, 2008. - 312 p. - (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). The conflict between the powerful Roman and Persian empires arising from the extension of Roman power into today’s Middle East is coming into increasingly sharp focus, thanks to the amount of evidence now available. This richly illustrated book examines this evidence to reveal how Rome...
Westpost: Greenwood Press, 2004. — 222 p. In the 250 years between 250 and 500 C.E., Rome found itself transformed from a mighty global empire into a limited collection of Germanic kingdoms. The aspiration exhibited in these kingdoms (as well as in Constantinople and later in the person of Charlemagne) to recreate and reclaim the glory of the Roman Empire persists to this day,...
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. – 351 p. – (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome). ISBN13: 978-0-8078-3038-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN10: 0-8078-3038-0 (cloth: alk. paper) The division of the late Roman Empire into two theoretically cooperating parts by the brothers Valentinian and Valens in 364 deeply influenced many aspects of government in each...
Routledge, 2005. — 213 p. Why did Roman Britain collapse? What sort of society succeeded it? How did the Anglo-Saxons take over? And how far is the traditional view of a massacre of the native population a product of biased historical sources? This text explores what Britain was like in the 4th-century AD and looks at how this can be understood when placed in the wider context...
Bellona, 2007. — 185 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between an Eastern Roman army led by the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by Fritigern. The battle took place in the vicinity of...
Bellona, 2005. — 189 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their vassals commanded...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. – 365 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-07322-9 eBook (EBL) ISBN10: 0-511-07322-4 eBook (EBL) ISBN13: 978-0-521-81349-5 hardback ISBN10: 0-521-81349-2 hardback Warfare and dislocation are obvious features of the break-up of the late Roman West, but this crucial period of change was characterised also by communication and diplomacy. The great...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — x + 372 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans , Walter...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 560 p. In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. — 531 p. The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then over 200 discrete reasons have been advanced for the collapse of the western half of the Roman empire. Until very recently, the academic view downplayed the death and destruction, to spin a positive story of the 'world of late antiquity'....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. – 422 p. – (Oxford Classical Monographs). ISBN: 0-19-815275-2 (alk. paper) While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius...
Routledge, 2017. — 284 p. The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy, Egypt, Greece and even Gaul. It was, however, one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration, but at the same time...
Macmillan International, 1993. — 267 p. Emperor Constantine I founded Constantinople on the site of Byzantium and converted the Roman Empire to Christianity, yet this first Christian emperor "would hardly be recognized as Christian at all today," asserts renowned classicist Grant in a compelling reassessment. A ruthless despot who strove to be a world-conqueror like Alexander...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. — 256 p. This Fall of the Roman Empire has always been regarded as one of the most significant transformations in the whole of human history. A hundred years before it occurred, Rome was an immense power defended by an invincible army. A hundred years later, the power and the army had vanished. "The Fall of the Roman Empire" succinctly describes...
London - New York: Routledge, 2002. – 406 p. ISBN 0-203-99454-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-14687-9 (Print Edition) Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian’s invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 269 p. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in the period revolved around the desire of individual...
London: Routledge, 2004. 402 p. The geographical setting. The economic base of the city. Berytus as colonia and civitas . The built environment of Berytus. Provincial organization in the Roman and Late Antique eras. Paganism and cultural identity. Christianity as change in religious identity. A city of lawyers, professors, and students. Artisans, occupational identity, and...
Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. – 628 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-19861-5 Hardback Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, andemploying sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book re-interprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the middle...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 288 p. The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the ‘Nisibis War’), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive battle. Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defense based upon small frontier (limitanei) forces defending fortified cities, supported...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 365 p. This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian. How had it changed? The emperors were still warriors and expected to take the field. Rome was still the capital, at least symbolically. There was still a Roman senate, though with new rules brought...
Oxford; New York [et al.]: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 576 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-532541-6 (pbk.). The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire...
Liverpool University Press, 2001. — 320 p. Around the year 350, a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favour with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was similarly favoured by subsequent emperors - Jovian (363-64), Valens (364-78)...
Routledge, 2017. — 256 p. With "The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395" Mark Hebblewhite offers the first study solely dedicated to examining the nature of the relationship between the emperor and his army in the politically and militarily volatile later Roman Empire. Bringing together a wide range of available literary, epigraphic and numismatic...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. — 366 p. — ISBN-10: 029271873X; ISBN-13: 978-0292718739 The ruling elite in ancient Rome sought to eradicate even the memory of their deceased opponents through a process now known as damnatio memoriae. These formal and traditional practices included removing the person's name and image from public monuments and inscriptions, making it...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. "à eine ganz hervorragende Arbeit. [à] Henning kommt zu ueberzeugenden Ergebnissen. Seine differenzierende Betrachtungsweise, die minutiösen Untersuchungen zur Machtbasis der römischen Kaiser, seine gelungenen Analysen zu den Eliten des Reiches haben den Rezensenten ueber weite Strecken begeistert." Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung In der Mitte des...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 208 p. Constantine the Great (285-337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, Ross Holloway examines Constantine's remarkable building programme in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 303 p. The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of his murdered successor,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 240 p. "Patricians and Emperors" offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power in the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, from the assassination of Aetius in 454 to the death of Julius Nepos in 480. The book is divided into four parts. The first sets the background to the period, including brief histories of...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 288 p. The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and rebellions. Ian Hughes explains how a Vandal...
Baylor University Press, 2016. — 304 p. "Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity — including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods ,...
Pp. I-XV, 1-522 Note on weights, measuring and currency. PART I: Narrative THE PRINCIPATE — the Antonines; the Severi; the anarchy. DIOCLETIAN — politics; the administration; the army; finance; the classes; the Christians. CONSTANTINE — usurpation; conversion; ; Constantinople; the Caesars; the Arian controversy; Christians, Pagans and Jews; the emperor and the church; the army;...
Pp.523-1068 SENATORS AND HONORATI — the aristocratic ideal; ordo equester, comitiva and senate; admission and precedence; privileges and burdens; the value of rank; the social composition of the senate; the geographical distribution of senators; the wealth of senators; otium senatoris. THE CIVIL SERVICE — the origins of the service; the sacred bedehambe; the palatine...
Pp. I-v, 1-448. Appendix i — The largitiones and the res privata. Appendix ii — The Notitia Dignitatum. Appendix iii — Dioceses and Provinces. List of collections and periodicals cited.
Cambridge - Massachusetts - London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. – 353 p. – (Revealing Antiquity; 15). ISBN: 0-674-01564-9 (alk. paper) In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 368 p. History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the court of Constantinople, Christopher Kelly portrays Attila in a compelling new light, uncovering an unlikely marriage...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. – 515 p. – (Ancient Society and History). ISBN13: 978-0-8018-9832-7 ISBN10: 0-8018-9832-3 The history of Spain in late antiquity offers important insights into the dissolution of the western Roman empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. Nonetheless, scholarship on Spain in this period has lagged behind that on other...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. – 237 p. Late in August 410, Rome was starving, its residents were turning on one another, and, to make matters worse, the Gothic army camped at Rome's gates was restless. The Gothic commander was Alaric, a Roman general and barbarian chieftain. Leading an army that was short of food and potentially mutinous, sacking Rome was his only...
Profile Books, 2019. — 416 p. For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2013. — 360 p. — (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome). — ISBN 978-0-7486-2790-5 (hardback). — ISBN 978-0-7486-2791-2 (paperback). — ISBN 978-0-7486-3175-9 (webready PDF). — ISBN 978-0-7486-6835-9 (EPUB). — ISBN 978-0-7486-6836-6 (Amazon ebook). Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire...
Malden (USA), Oxford (UK), Victoria (Australia): Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. – 309 p. – (Ancient World at War). ISBN: 978-0-631-22925-4 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN: 978-0-631-22926-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) Selected Roman Emperors during Late Antiquity Selected Persian Kings during Late Antiquity Table of Significant Events War and its Causes in Late Antiquity: An Overview The...
Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of California Press, 2002. – 478 p. ISBN: 0-520-23332-8 (alk. paper) Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364–378). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. - 415 p. Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state — a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the traditional tools of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 455 p. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal Roman Emperor and his times (272-337). Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 240 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Offers an in-depth narrative of one of history's most dysfunctional dynasties. Through the approachable history of the sons of Constantine, William Lewis offers an original reappraisal of fourth-century politics. Introduces several new arguments that will change the way Constantine's sons are...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. — 340 p. — ISBN: 0-19-814886-0 This book is built around two related events at Constantinople in about the year AD 400: the Gainas crisis of 399–400 and the deposition of John Chrysostom in 403–4. Both were made possible by fundamental changes in Roman society since the Early Empire. The Gainas affair could happen only because the Empire had come...
Leiden: Brill, 2015. — 508 p. — (Impact of Empire. Roman Empire, c. 200 BC – AD 476. Vol. 20). ISSN: 1572-0500. ISBN: 978-90-04-28292-6 (hardback) ISBN: 978-90-04-28952-9 (e-book) «East and West in Late Antiquity» combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called «The Decline and Fall of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 495 p. This book examines the age of Attila, roughly the fifth century CE, an era in which western Eurasia experienced significant geopolitical and cultural changes. The Roman Empire collapsed in western Europe, replaced by new "barbarian" kingdoms, but it continued in Christian Byzantine guise in the eastern Mediterranean. New states and...
Series Campaign # 84, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2001. - p. 94 At dawn on 9 August AD 378, the East Roman Emperor Valens marched out of the city of Adrianople at the head of an elite army of veteran Roman soldiers. He was determined to crush the marauding bands of Goths who had crossed the Danube as refugees two years earlier. By nightfall the Emperor, along with two thirds of...
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. – 364 p. – (Oxford Classical Monographs). ISBN: 0-19-925244-0 «Late Roman Warlords» reconstructs the lives of some of the men who shaped events in the final controversial years of the Western Roman Empire during the fifth century AD. Ranging from the Balkans and Italy to northern France, this study uses a wide range of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 352 p. This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Migrationen verändern die Welt nachhaltig. Das Ende des Römischen Reiches im Westen und der Beginn des europäischen Mittelalters sind ohne die Völkerwanderung des 5. Jh.s nicht zu verstehen und zu erklären. Unmittelbar nach dem Ende der Römerherrschaft etablierten ostgermanische Stammeskönige für ca. 100 Jahre ihre Reiche in den früheren Gebieten des...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009. — 334 p. The essays collected in this book present the first comprehensive appreciation of The Fall of the Roman Empire from historical, historiographical, and cinematic perspectives. The book also provides the principal classical sources on the period. It is a companion to Gladiator: Film and History (Blackwell, 2004) and Spartacus: Film and...
Routledge, 2017. — xiii + 328 p. Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as the cradle of modern France and Germany. Standard texts and "moments" have emerged and been canonized in the scholarship on the period, be it Gaul...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 367 p. In this book, McEvoy addresses the remarkable phenomenon of the Roman child-emperor. During the late fourth century the emperor Valentinian I, recovering from a life-threatening illness, took the novel step of declaring his eight year old son Gratian as his co-Augustus. Valentinian I's actions set a vital precedent: over the following...
Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. – 333 p. – (Yale Classical Studies. Vol. 34). ISBN13: 978-0-521-89821-8 Hardback An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments...
Routledge, 2017. — 244 p. The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when a precedent was set for an unsustainable threshold on...
2nd ed. — Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 567 p. — (Blackwell History of the Ancient World). — ISBN 978-1-118-31242-1 (pbk.). This book is concerned with the final three and a half centuries of classical antiquity. This lengthy period in the history of the ancient world was characterized by profound transformations in its character, and led to the emergence in the west of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 420 p. In this book, Muriel Moser investigates the relationship between the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II (AD 312-361) and the senators of Constantinople and Rome. She examines and contextualizes the integration of the social elites of Rome and the Eastern provinces into the imperial system and demonstrates their increased...
New York: Ecco, 2008. – 448 p. The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. It was a looking-glass world, where some Romans idealized the Persian emperor while barbarian kings in Italy and France worked tirelessly...
University of Alberta Press, 1983. — 238 p. John Michael O'Flynn traces the development of the position of the generalissimo, or emperor's commander of the military forces, in the western part of the Roman Empire during the first century AD. From the arrogant barbarian Arbogast, who treated the youthful emperor Valentinian as his puppet, to Odovacar, who dismissed the last...
Routledge, 2019. — 318 p. 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 imperial period the theater of confrontation for multiple political entities: Rome, Parthia, Sasanian Persia. Roman presence is only recognizable through military installations –...
Routledge, 2004. — 135 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History). The emperor Constantine (ruled in 306-337) has been called the most important Emperor of Late Antiquity. His powerful personality laid the foundations not only of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and ofJerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but of post-classical European civilization; his reign was eventful and...
London - New York: Routledge, 2004. – 784 p. ISBN 0-203-40117-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-67387-5 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-10057-7 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-10058-5 (pbk) David S. Potter's comprehensive survey of two critical and eventful centuries traces the course of imperial decline, skillfully weaving together cultural, intellectual and political history. Particular...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2014. — 792 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 250 p. In this book, Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Critically analysing the archaeological notion of decline, he focuses on public buildings, which played an important role, administrative and symbolic, within urban complexes. Arguing against the interpretation that many of these monumental civic buildings...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 248 p. In Rome’s Christian Empress, Joyce E. Salisbury brings the captivating story of Rome’s Christian empress to life. The daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I, Galla Placidia lived at the center of imperial Roman power during the first half of the fifth century. Taken hostage after the fall of Rome to the Goths, she was married to...
Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) – London (UK): Harvard University Press, 2004. – 369 p. ISBN: 0-674-00641-0 (cloth) ISBN: 0-674-01603-3 (pbk.) Approaches to a Paradox Defining the Senatorial Aristocracy Aristocratic Men: Social Origins Aristocratic Men: Career Paths Aristocratic Women The Emperor’s Influence on Aristocratic Conversion The Aristocrats’ Influence on Christianity...
University of California Press, 1990. — xxii + 315 p., 107 figs. Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable...
Westview Press, 2003. — 278 p. An entertaining look into a little-known crisis in the ranks of the Roman army in the late third century, B.C., when soldiers became the Empire's own worst enemy, pillaging citizens and creating social turmoil. In the closing years of the third century BC, the ancient world watched as the Roman armies maintained clear superiority over all they...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. A study of the conditions and types of teaching and education in Late Antique Constantinople: the author examines the role of teachers, the various forms of teaching available (philosophical, religious etc.) and the attitudes and contributions made by the Emperors themselves to the `education system'.
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 477 p. This new study argues that the religious attitude of the Roman army was a crucial factor in the Christianization of the Roman world. Specifically, by the end of the third century, there was a significant Christian presence within the army which was ready to act in the interests of the faith. Conditions at this time were thus...
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. – 450 p. ISBN 978–0–19–928417–7 Hagith Sivan offers an unconventional study of one corner of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, weaving around the theme of conflict strands of distinct histories, and of peoples and places, highlighting Palestine’s polyethnicity, and cultural, topographical, architectural, and religious...
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011. — x, 224 p. : 30 illus., geneal. table, maps. — (Women in Antiquity Series). The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 231 p. This book presents new insights into the dynamics of the relationship between governors and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire, with a focus on the provincial perspective. Based on literary, legal, epigraphic and artistic materials the author deals with questions such as how provincials communicated their needs to governors,...
Abrams Press, 2010. — 352 p. "By this sign conquer". So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome for themselves. Constantine led Christianity and its...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 320 p. This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned) gives a detailed account of the changes in organization, equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant period, while also giving a detailed but accessible account of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 312 p. Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle Constantine the Great early in the fourth...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. – 458 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-34268-4 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN10: 0-511-34268-3 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN13: 978-0-521-88209-5 hardback ISBN10: 0-521-88209-5 hardback The reign of the emperor Constantine (306–337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome’s Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 252 p. Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation? In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the...
Espasa: 2007. — 161 p. «La escritura de este libro ha supuesto un tiempo desproporcionado, pero eso mismo ha permitido discutirlo con numerosos compañeros, y cometer a prueba algunas de sus partes ante auditorios muy variados de Gran Bretaña y otros países. A todos esos públicos y colegas, demasiados para nombrarlos aquí, les agradezco sus consejos y su apoyo. Doy las gracias...
Routledge, 2013. — 250 p. This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of affliction or failure. Like other punishments, it...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2008. – 435 p. – (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language. Vol. 93). ISBN: 978-90-04-17052-0 (hardback: alk. paper) ISSN: 0920-623X Introduction to Leo the Great and the Late Roman World That Was His Stage The study of Leo the Great Imperial regimes and the Roman senate Structure of the empire in Italy...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 553 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). — ISBN 978-0-19-976899-8. The aim of this volume is to reappraise the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The focus lies on the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I and thus on a major phase of the development of the...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 182 p. Despite his critical role in the western Roman Empire during the early fifth century AD, Bonifatius remains a neglected figure in the history of the late Empire. The Last of the Romans presents a new political and military biography of Bonifatius, analysing his rise through the higher echelons of imperial power and examining themes such as the role of...
Routledge, 2005. — 232 p. Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring together literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence concerning this Roman emperor,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Inhalt: M. Zimmermann: Enkomion und Historiographie: Entwicklungslinien der kaiserzeitlichen Geschichtsschreibung vom 1. bis zum frühen 3. Jh. n. Chr. H. Krasser: Lesekultur als Voraussetzung für die Rezeption von Geschichtsschreibung in der Hohen Kaiserzeit Th. A. Schmitz: Performing History in the Second Sophistic M. G. Schmidt: Politische und...
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