From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians

Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE
Herausgeber: Mcgill, Scott; Watts, Edward; Sogno, Cristiana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, history and historiography, and literature of the later Roman world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521898218
• ISBN-10: 0521898218
• Artikelnr.: 28108504

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Part I. Politics, Law, and Society: 1. The unity of the Roman
Empire David Potter; 2. Roman patronage Peter Garnsey; 3. Roman matchmaking
Cristiana Sogno; 4. Constantine the Lawgiver Jill Harries; 5. Constantine
answers the veterans Serena Connolly; Part II. Biography and Panegyrics: 6.
Three generations of Christian philosophical biography Edward Watts; 7. The
education of Paulinus of Pella: learning in the late Empire Josiah Osgood;
8. Another man's miracles: recasting Aelius Donatus in Phocas' Life of
Virgil Scott McGill; 9. Gregory of Nazianzus' 'Life' of Julian revisited
(Or. 4 and 5): divine decree and imperial enactment Susanna Elm; Part III.
Constantinople in the 380s or Theodosius I and the Year 380/'Faces of
Theodosius I'/The 'New Theodosian Age': 10. Liar in winter: Themistius and
Theodosius Peter Heather; 11. Moments of truth: Gregory Nazianzen and
Theodosius I Neil McLynn; 12. Reinventing Constantinople: Theodosius I's
imprint on the Imperial City Brian Croke; 13. Reinventing history: Jerome's
chronicle and the writing of the post-Roman West Mark Vessey.