Theodosius Ii

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107276901

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Theodosius II by Christopher Kelly Pdf

Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107038585

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A fresh look at the vitality and integrity of the eastern Roman Empire under its longest reigning emperor.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520253919

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A Greek Roman Empire by Fergus Millar Pdf

"This masterful study will have its place on every ancient historian's bookshelf."—Claudia Rapp, author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0520247035

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Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 110881641X

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Theodosius II by Christopher Kelly Pdf

Theodosius II (AD 408-450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.

Author : P. R. Coleman-Norton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725255647

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Roman State & Christian Church Volume 1 by P. R. Coleman-Norton Pdf

This collection of legal documents affecting the Christian Church in the Roman Empire is the first its kind in any language. In time the monuments here translated cover the period from the foundation of the Church to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor in the West (476), and to the publication of the second (and only extant) edition of the Code of Justinian I, the most conspicuous champion of Caesaropapism in the East (534)—each terminus ad quem being an arbitrary, but a natural, limit. The character of the originals, which are mostly in either Greek or Latin, is strictly secular, that is, the documents emanate from the State’s officials, ordinarily the emperors, and thus expose the State’s attitude toward the Church. —From the Introduction

Author : Roger Bagnall,Klaas Worp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047412526

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Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt by Roger Bagnall,Klaas Worp Pdf

Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1958-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486203997

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History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian by J. B. Bury Pdf

An unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN38Z5

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A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography by William Smith Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Biography
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00106801

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Oarses-Zygia by William Smith Pdf

Author : Kenneth G. Holum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520909700

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Theodosian Empresses by Kenneth G. Holum Pdf

Theodosian Empresses sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern court in the fifth century.

Author : Meaghan A. McEvoy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191642104

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Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 by Meaghan A. McEvoy Pdf

In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young western emperors in the years AD 367-455, she looks at the way in which the sophistication of the Roman system made their accessions and survival possible. The book highlights how these reigns allowed for individual generals to dominate the Roman state and in what manner the crucial role of Christianity, together with the vested interests of various factions within the imperial elite, contributed to a transformation of the imperial image - enabling and facilitating the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to portray boys as young as six as viable rulers. It also analyses the struggles which ensued upon a child-emperor reaching adulthood and seeking to take up functions which had long been delegated during his childhood. Through the phenomenon of child-emperor rule, McEvoy demonstrates the major changes taking place in the nature of the imperial office in late antiquity, which had significant long-term impacts upon the way the Roman state came to be ruled and, in turn, the nature of rulership in the early medieval and Byzantine worlds to follow.

Author : R. Malcolm Errington
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877456

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Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by R. Malcolm Errington Pdf

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 of the divisions. Although the imperial policies during this well-documented and formative period are generally understood to have been driven by the religious and ideological aims of the emperors, R. Malcolm Errington argues that the emperors were actually much more pragmatic in their decision making than has previously been assumed. The division of responsibilities between the emperors inevitably encouraged separate developments and allowed locally varying and often changing imperial attitudes toward different forms of religious belief. Errington demonstrates that the main stimulus for action in this period nearly always came from below the level of the imperial government, and not from an imperial initiative. Extending the theory of Fergus Millar into the later empire, Errington argues that the emperors were fundamentally reactive to regionally supplied information, as Millar has asserted was the case for the High Empire. Thus, despite significant structural changes, the empire remained broadly traditional in its operations.

Author : Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004406582

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Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche by Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger Pdf

All interested in the history of the Church in Late Antiquity, especially in the development of the church and its theology it this time. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich mit der Kirche in der Spätantike, mit Theologiegeschichte oder Konziliengeschichte befassen.

Author : Jasper Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134131846

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Great Women of Imperial Rome by Jasper Burns Pdf

Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome. Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes: a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism three third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform an empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy. Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women’s studies.