Brill, 2013. — 510 p. — (McGill University Monographs in Classical Archaeology and History/Monographies en Archéologie et Histoire Classiques de l’Université McGill 22). The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology / Le Levant: Carrefour de l'Antiquité tardive explores the monumental, religious, and social developments that took place in the...
Praeger, 1979. — 151 p. Professor Alfoldi describes the conflict in the reign of Emperor Valentinian I between the old world of pagan thought and custom and the new order created by the conversion to Christianity of Constantine the Great. Despite Valentinian's noble policy of tolerance, he regarded the practice of magic by leading Roman nobles, which the Senate and aristocracy of...
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...
Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia, 2007. — 338 p. Estos versos del poema «Esperando a los bárbaros» de Cavafis inspiran a Javier Arce en su estudio sobre el siglo V d.C., uno de los más enigmáticos y peor conocidos de la historia de la Península Ibérica. Fue entonces cuando llegaron y se asentaron en la Hispania romana los llamados «pueblos bárbaros»: suevos, vándalos y...
Clarendon Press, 1972. — 268 p. Интересное научное исследование о сенаторской аристократической элите периода поздней Римской империи (с 284 по 395 годы) в Риме и Константинополе: ее положении, влиянии и статусе, составе и функциях.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change? , celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome’s fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change? , celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome’s fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change? , celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome’s fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change? , celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome’s fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 340 p. This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the barbarian kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic...
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. Julian: An Intellectual Biography, first published in 1981, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of Julian’s intellectual development against the background of philosophy and religion in the late Roman Empire. Professor Polymnia Athanassiadi tells the story of Julian’s transformation from a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a capable...
McFarland, 2020. — 223 p. Despite being one of history's most important women, the story of Empress Galla Placidia's life has been largely forgotten. Though the Roman empress witnessed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and lived a life of almost constant suffering, her actions helped postpone the fall of Rome and had massive, widespread impact on the...
Schwabe AG, 2023. — 270 p. The book aims at analyzing shared religious sites in the microcosm of the multireligious and multicultural Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. The main objective is to understand if some religious sites of the Eastern Roman Empire were the object of a shared attendance by groups or individuals from different religious backgrounds, and, for those which...
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...
Routledge, 2003. — 333 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt by Roger Bagnall, whose book 'Egypt in Late Antiquity' has...
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 the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 258 p. — (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). Christianity in the late antique world was not imposed but embraced, and the laity were not passive members of their religion but had a central role in its creation. This volume explores the role of the laity in Gaul, bringing together the fields of history, archaeology and theology. First, this...
Cooper Square Press, 2001. — 382 p. Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to power―an empire where feudalism was replacing the old senatorial government and the lands...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 486 p. This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this period the empire was ruled by three brothers: Constantine II (337-340), Constans I (337-350) and Constantius II (337-361). These emperors tend to be cast into shadow by their famous father Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 486 p. This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this period the empire was ruled by three brothers: Constantine II (337-340), Constans I (337-350) and Constantius II (337-361). These emperors tend to be cast into shadow by their famous father Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor...
ISD LLC, 2012. — 380 p. This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. 361-363 CE), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as his artistic programme. Across nineteen papers,...
Routledge, 2022. — 436 p. — ISBN-13 9781032010427. Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius’ reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed as a time of significant change in the history of the fourth century. Constantius initially shared power with his brothers,...
Routledge, 2022. — 436 p. Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius’ reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed as a time of significant change in the history of the fourth century. Constantius initially shared power with his brothers, Constantine II and Constans,...
Routledge, 2022. — 436 p. Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius’ reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed as a time of significant change in the history of the fourth century. Constantius initially shared power with his brothers, Constantine II and Constans,...
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...
Walker Books, 2008. — 180 p. On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unforeseen flood of refugees from the East Germanic tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's eastern border, seeking admittance. Though usually successful in dealing with barbarian groups, in this...
Laterza, 2010. — 248 p. I Balcani, lembo estremo dell'impero Romano d'Oriente. I Goti, popolazione in fuga da una terra devastata dalla guerra. Il Danubio, confine fragile e mal presidiato. Un impero corrotto, una sconfitta disastrosa, un racconto appassionante. «Questo libro racconta di una battaglia che ha cambiato la storia del mondo ma non è famosa come Waterloo o...
Laterza, 2006. — 233 p. L’Impero Romano d’Occidente cadde quando le risorse di cui disponeva divennero incapaci di gestire un movimento migratorio in armi che lo avrebbe travolto. Leggendo Barbero sembra di vedere un servizio al telegiornale. I “barbari” vivevano da secoli dentro l’Impero, integrati in uno Stato multinazionale in cui anarchia, guerre e epidemie avevano...
Harvard University Press, 1993. — 368 p. As the high-ranking Bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373, Athanasius came into conflict with no fewer than four Roman emperors--Constantine himself, his son Constantius, Julian the Apostate, and the "Arian" Valens. In this new reconstruction of Athanasius's career, Timothy D. Barnes analyzes the nature and extent of the Bishop's power,...
Harvard University Press, 1981. — 458 p. This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Timothy D. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his...
Wiley Blackwell, 2014. — 290 p. This work by Timothy Barnes is an outstanding study of both Constantine the Emperor and the role and function of religion in the later Roman Empire. It follows naturally from his first book-length study of the emperor, Constantine and Eusebius (Harvard, 1981) which tells the story of the emergence of Constantine from the dynastic squabbles of the...
Harvard University Press, 1982. — 325 p. Sources. Part One: Emperors. Imperial college. Other emperors. Imperial titulature. Careers, families. Residences and journeys. Holders of offices. Ordinary consuls. Prefects of Rome. Praetorian prefects. Administrators of dioceses, governors. Names in Acta martyrum. Administration. Political divisions. The Verona list. Diocletian and...
Gerald Duckworth, 1992. — 260 p. The subject of this book is the administrative structure of the western half of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, and that of the 'barbarian' kingdoms which came to be established in the territory of the Empire during the course of that century. My purpose is to examine the extent to which 'barbarian' government was influenced by its Roman...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 368 p. Acérquese al Imperio romano y descubra cómo tras su máximo apogeo aparecieron los primeros signos de debilidad que acabarían dando lugar a una grave crisis. Descubra cómo el Imperio romano logró reinventarse y emergió de sus propias cenizas el Bajo Imperio romano, que le permitió perpetuarse durante dos siglos más. Breve historia de la caída del Imperio...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 412 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 51). Die räumliche Verortung historischer Erinnerung ist in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung der jüngeren Zeit intensiv diskutiert worden. Dabei hat die Vorstellung von weitgehend einheitlichen Formen der Erinnerung jedoch bisweilen den Blick auf die...
University of Melbourne, 2020. — 177 p. The magistri militum were the highest-ranking generals of the late Roman imperial army. Emperor Constantine I created this office in the early part of the fourth century with the intention of reducing the chance that generals would threaten the reigns of his sons and dynastic heirs. This was initially a success, and the magistri militum...
Rusconi Libri, 1996. — 408 p. Convinto che la morte degli dei pagani si sarebbe trasformata in morte dell'Impero e dello Stato, Giuliano Imperatore (361-363) aveva tentato di riproporre, contro la predicazione "irrazionale" del falegname di Galilea, le mitologie come religione, sforzandosi di dare al paganesimo una liturgia che ne rigenerasse la cultura. E per questo è passato...
Il Cerchio, 2004. — 320 p. Grande libro di storico rigoroso e scrittore di talento sulla vita del grande Romane imperatore filosofo, figura controversa di condottiero reso immortale dalle sue imprese militari ma molto di più dalla sua opera disperata di restauratore del paganesimo in un mondo romano classico ormai inesorabilmente destinato al disfacimento sotto gli attacchi del...
Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2012. — 320 p. — (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 10). The monumentality and the often rich embellishment of late antique buildings and monuments emphasises their importance to the patrons that commissioned them. However, the understanding and interpretation of the message conveyed may often be obtained through the study of the other...
Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2017.-XI, 238 p. SHANE BJORNLIE Imagining Constantine, then and now RAYMOND VAN DAM The reception of classical pastoral in the Age of Constantine CHRISTOPHER CHINN Platonism in the palace: the character of Constantine’s theology ELIZABETH DEPALMA DIGESER What hath Constantine wrought? H.A. DRAKE Constantine and Silvester in the Actus Silvestri...
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.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015. — 224 p. The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later--and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The "intolerant zeal" of Christians, wrote Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 308 p. Ostia Antica - Rome's ancient harbor. Its houses and apartments, taverns and baths, warehouses, shops, and temples have long contributed to a picture of daily life in Rome. Recent investigations have revealed, however, that life in Ostia did not end with a bang but with a whimper. Only on the cusp of the Middle Ages did the town's...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. — 660 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World. Vol. 24). — ISSN 1569-1934; ISBN: 90-04-14391-2. Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches makes recent work on late antique Hispania available to a non-specialist audience outside the Iberian peninsula. The central theme of the volume is the integration of Hispania into the larger world...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 157 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 134). Jede Form von Geschichtsinterpretation ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht mit Wirklichkeit befaßt 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 äußeren...
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...
Akademie Verlag, 1998. — 216 S. — (Studienbücher Geschichte und Kultur der Alten Welt). Alte Geschichte, einschlie lich der fr hen byzantinischen Geschichte, und exemplarische Ph nomene des Weiterlebens der Antike sind Themen der Reihe. Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Rechts-, Religions- und Geistesgeschichte werden dabei besonders ber cksichtigt. Der Vordere und der Mittlere Orient...
Harvard University Press, 1993. — 147 р. Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman imperial society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.
Madison (Wisconsin): The University of Wisconsin Press, "The Curti Lectures", 1992. - 192 p. ISBN 0-299-13340-0 ISBN 0-299-13344-3 (pbk.) Devotio: Autocracy and Elites. Paideia and Power. Poverty and Power. Towards a Christian Empire. Классический труд «пионера» в разработке понятия «поздняя Античность» (после уже Пиренна и его поколения) и одного из сымых «продающихся»...
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, 2018. — 365 p. — (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 1). Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new critical analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious and literary contexts.
Routledge, 2011. — 228 p. The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries CE. The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our reconstruction of the history of the third and fourth centuries, some well known, others much less so:...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 206 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 234). The so-called Chronica urbis Romae has long been valued for the exact year-month-day figures that it gives for the reign of every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to Licinius, especially those for the emperors of the third century, whose dates of accession and death are for the most part unknown. This book,...
Indiana University Press, 1994. — 434 p. A major work on Roman policy toward the barbarians during one of the most exciting and challenging periods in the history of the Roman Empire, when barbarian soldiers became part of the forces defending the Roman frontier and gradually its rulers. By the close of these five decades, the Western Empire―hence Western Civilization―had...
Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1996. — 290 p. Relations between two worlds - Roman and Barbarian - constitute a problem which has attracted the attention of several generations of scholars. Already in the late eighteen hundreds a distinct field of study began to emerge - primarily the domain of interest for archaeologists, historians and numismatists. The question of contacts between the...
London and New York MacMillan and Co 1889 532 стр. Монография. Работа одного из величайших специалистов по истории поздней Римской империи - Бери Дж. Б. уже давно является классикой в истории.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. — 518 p. The classical historian J. B. Bury (1861-1927) was the author of a history of Greece which was a standard textbook for over a century. He also wrote on later periods, and, in this two-volume work of 1889, examines Byzantine history from 395 to 800. Arguing for the underlying continuity of the Roman empire from the time of Augustus until...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. — 601 p. The classical historian J. B. Bury (1861–1927) was the author of a history of Greece which was a standard textbook for over a century. He also wrote on later periods, and, in this two-volume work of 1889, examines Byzantine history from 395 to 800. Arguing for the underlying continuity of the Roman empire from the time of Augustus until...
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 these...
Clarendon Press, 1970. — 508 p. As a political propagandist Claudian offers unique illumination of the intrigues inside and between the rival Roman courts of Milan and Constantinople in the decisive years following the death of Theodosius the Great. As a poet, though a Greek by birth, he revived Latin Poetry with a flair not seen since the Silver Age and not to be seen again....
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 878 p. Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 878 p. Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth...
HarperPress, 2013. — 260 p. A comprehensive study - recently updated for the eBook edition - which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD. 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...
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...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1968. — 49 p. Prima di dar principio alla seconda parte délia nostra serie, è necessarîo esamlnare talnne antiohissirae liste di pt-efetfci, acoennate solamente nella prima parte del lávoro, e poi indioai-ie i mntamenti più important! oite vennero introdotti ooU'amministmmoe doU'Egifcto dal tempo di Diooleziano ñno a qitello di Teodosio ; saranoo cos)...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 382 p. — (Heidelberger Althistorische Beitrage гnd Epigraphische Studien 64). The 'Tetrarchy', the modern name assigned to the period of Roman history that started with the emperor Diocletian and ended with Constantine I, has been a much-studied and much-debated field of the Roman Empire. Debate, however, has focused primarily on whether it was a...
Routledge, 1994. — 214 p. — (Roman Imperial Biographies). — 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...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 297 p. Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian—have long been...
Brill, 2019. — 255 p. — (Impact of Empire 36). The collective volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity: Representation and Reality, edited by Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw and Fabian Schulz, offers new insights into the political culture of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., where the emperor’s favour was paramount. The articles...
Copenhagen University: The Theological Faculty [2012].-VII, 331 p. Revised and expanded edition. Chapter I. Maximinus – upbringing and appointment as Caesar. Chapter II. Maximinus as Caesar. Chapter III. The decline and collapse of the tetrarchy. Chapter IV. Maximinus as Maximus Augustus. Chapter V. Maximinus – defeat and fall 239. Appendices I-V.
Routledge, 2017. — 87 p. A collection of original research articles relating to Roman historical and epigraphic studies presented in honor of Professor John Mann. Supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Professor John Mann, a graduate of University College and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute. The first four were delivered to a one-day...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 160 p. Late antiquity saw the barbarian invasions overrun the western Roman empire and Persian and Arab armies end Roman rule over the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean. Was late antiquity therefore merely a time of decline? In this vibrant and compact introduction, Gillian Clark sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and...
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...
Routledge, 2014. — 250 p. There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a...
Pen and Sword Archaeology, 2020. — 168 p. Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly illustrated volume showcases the artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations along Hadrian's Wall in order to examine the daily lives of those...
Nadir Media, 2022. — 227 p. L’organizzazione dell’esercito Romano dell’inizio del IV secolo, dopo la riorganizzazione effettuata da Diocleziano, è, sotto alcuni aspetti, simile a quella dei Severi, anche se accresciuta dal punto di vista numerico (si è passati dai circa 350.000 uomini dell’esercito severano ad almeno 450.000 effettivi di quello dioclezianeo); ad esempio...
Laterza, 2017. — 195 p. Nel 260 d.C. l'imperatore Valeriano viene catturato dal 're dei re' Shapur I: finirà i suoi giorni in Persia in una vergognosa prigionia. Per i Romani è una catastrofe senza precedenti, ancor più terribile di quella avvenuta a Carre nel 53 a.C. Roma si trova così a dover affrontare la fase peggiore della crisi che affligge l'impero nel terzo secolo. I...
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 previous...
Basic Books, 2023. — 304 p. While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life and thought were influenced by women. Queens of a Fallen World tells a story of betrayal, love, and ambition in the ancient world as seen through a woman's eyes. Historian Kate Cooper introduces us to four women whose hopes and plans collided in Augustine's early...
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...
Edizioni di Pagina, 2007. — 109 p. Della politica di Giuliano è lecito dire che seguì sviluppo lineare e coerente; che fu accorta politica: voluta e fatta da un uomo il quale non si lasciò mai dominare da altri interessi che quelli superiori della fede in cui militava”. Un libro dalle molte qualità, questo studio di Goffredo Coppola sull’imperatore Giuliano. Prosa incisiva ed...
Clarendon Press, 1996. — 405 p. The era of Diocletian and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years, and the time when the Christian Church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period of co-operation and rivalry between a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 384 p. The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times. When Constantine I died in in 337, the twenty-year-old...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 384 p. The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times. When Constantine I died in in 337, the twenty-year-old...
Routledge, 2021. — 322 p. Roman Emperors in Context: Theodosius to Justinian brings together ten articles by renowned historian Brian Croke. Written separately and over a period of fifteen years, the revised and updated chapters in this volume provide a coherent and substantial story of the change and development in imperial government at the eastern capital of Constantinople...
Routledge, 2021. — 322 p. Roman Emperors in Context: Theodosius to Justinian brings together ten articles by renowned historian Brian Croke. Written separately and over a period of fifteen years, the revised and updated chapters in this volume provide a coherent and substantial story of the change and development in imperial government at the eastern capital of Constantinople...
White Mane Publishing Company, 1998. — 104 p. Facing unprecedented pressures from within and without, in the early fourth century A.D. the Emperor Constantine formed a new military force, a permanent Roman field army. He levied detachments from his legions defending the frontiers, and in a drastic step with far-reaching consequences, he recruited soldiers from the unconquered...
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 which...
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...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. — 807 p. — (Atti del Seminario di Poggibonsi, 18-20 ottobre 2007). — ISBN: 978-2-503-52974-5. L’idea di promuovere un convegno focalizzato sul V secolo non nasce da una rinnovata tendenza a presentare i secoli come entità storiche in sé significative, ma dal fatto che in un tempo più o meno coesteso al V secolo dell’era volgare avvennero fatti politici...
Walter de Gruyter, 2004. — 269 p. "Ein staatsmännisches Genie ersten Ranges", so nannte Theodor Mommsen 1886 Diokletian, jenen Dalmatiner, der es vom Freigelassenen bis zum Kaiser gebracht hatte. Diokletian hat das in der Reichskrise der Soldatenkaiserzeit zerrüttete Imperium wieder stabilisiert und sich nach seiner Abdankung 305 in den großartigen Alterspalast Spalato (Split,...
Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1989. — 627 p. Alexander Demandt präsentiert hier die Ereignis- und Politikgeschichte der Spätantike; er setzt mit der Krise des römischen Reiches unter den Soldatenkaisern (235 - 284) ein und beschreibt die Entwicklungen bis zum Ende der Herrschaft Justinians (565). Er erläutert die inneren Verhältnisse des Imperiums - Staat, Gesellschaft,...
2., vollständig bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. — C.H. Beck, 2007. — 775 p. — (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft 3. Abteilung. Alter Orient, Griechische Geschichte, Römische Geschichte 6). Alexander Demandt hat seine große wissenschaftliche Darstellung der Spätantike vollständig neu bearbeitet und legt sie in erweiterter Form auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand vor....
C.H.Beck, 2022. — 432 s. Diokletians epochale Regierung bildet den Übergang von der Soldatenkaiserzeit zur Spätantike. Alexander Demandt wirft einen unbefangenen Blick auf Diokletian (284 - 305 n. Chr.), dem er mit dieser quellenorientierten, präzise und anregend geschriebenen Biographie ein literarisches Denkmal setzt. Der reich bebilderte Text behandelt die großen...
C.H.Beck, 2022. — 432 s. Diokletians epochale Regierung bildet den Übergang von der Soldatenkaiserzeit zur Spätantike. Alexander Demandt wirft einen unbefangenen Blick auf Diokletian (284 - 305 n. Chr.), dem er mit dieser quellenorientierten, präzise und anregend geschriebenen Biographie ein literarisches Denkmal setzt. Der reich bebilderte Text behandelt die großen...
Brill, 1972. — 251 p. Данная книга голландского историка (на английском языке) посвящена публикации, изучению и аннотации различных уцелевших работ четырех малоизвестных историков Древнего Рима, живших и писавших в 4-м веке н.э. : Флора, Феста, Эвтропия и Аврелия Виктора.
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...
Brill, 2015. — 193 p. East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors...
University of Michigan Press, 2012. — 310 p. As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantine examines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his...
University of Michigan Press, 2012. — 310 p. As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantine examines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his...
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 those...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 494 p. - Explores political developments during the reign of Constantine, 306–337 - Traces the history of the Roman Empire through the third century, placing Constantine in context - Highlights the essential continuity between Constantine's reign and those of the Illyrian emperors This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 494 p. - Explores political developments during the reign of Constantine, 306–337 - Traces the history of the Roman Empire through the third century, placing Constantine in context - Highlights the essential continuity between Constantine's reign and those of the Illyrian emperors This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 494 p. - Explores political developments during the reign of Constantine, 306–337 - Traces the history of the Roman Empire through the third century, placing Constantine in context - Highlights the essential continuity between Constantine's reign and those of the Illyrian emperors This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and,...
University of California Press, 2010. — 376 p. This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing...
University of California Press, 2010. — 376 p. This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing...
Routledge, 2018. — 230 p. — (Roman imperial biographies). 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....
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, 1997. — 401 S. — (Historia Einzelschriften 116). 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...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor's brief rule. A former imperial bodyguard, Jovian reinvigorated the Roman Empire militarily, administratively, and religiously. More than an imperial footnote, the years 363-364...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 248 p. — (Oxford studies in late antiquity). The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor's brief rule. A former imperial bodyguard, Jovian reinvigorated the Roman Empire militarily, administratively, and religiously. More than an imperial footnote, the years 363-364...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor's brief rule. A former imperial bodyguard, Jovian reinvigorated the Roman Empire militarily, administratively, and religiously. More than an imperial footnote, the years 363-364...
Routledge, 2003. — 256 p. Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. CE 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in,...
Brill, 1991. — 225 p. This study on Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, is divided into two parts. The purpose of the first part is to ascertain the facts of Helena's life on the basis of reliable historical sources. The second part deals with the legends concerning the discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem by Helena. Fact and fiction, which are so...
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...
Routledge, 2021. — 310 p. This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth not seen mostly during the Parthian period. At the same time, contact between the two empires...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 466 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 165). Sidonius Apollinaris war Politiker, Bischof, Dichter und Mitglied einer selbstbewussten gallo-römischen Aristokratie. Er gehört zu den bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten des 5. Jahrhunderts in Gallien. Sein Leben – geprägt von...
The History Press, 2011. — 256 p. In AD 400 Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was beseiged on all sides. In The Last Legionary , Paul Elliot explores all aspects of Late Roman military life, from recruitment to weaponry, marriage to wages, warfare to religion. It explores the world of the Roman soldier through the eyes of one man, posted to a...
University of California Press, 2015. — 575 p. This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor’s...
University of California Press, 2012. — 577 p. This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor’s...
Clarendon Press, 2004. — 330 p. Despite the importance of warfare in the collapse of the Roman Empire, there is no modern, comprehensive study available. This book discusses the practice of warfare in Europe, from both Roman and barbarian perspectives, in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. It analyses the military practices and capabilities of the Romans and their...
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, and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 352 p. 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...
University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 352 p. 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...
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 of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 208 p. This guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the definitive fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a turbulent period during which the Roman state and its armed forces changed. Gabriele Esposito challenges many stereotypes and misconceptions...
UPH Siedlce, 2018. — 199 p. Amida (modern Diyarbakır) was a town situated on the west bank of the upper Tigris. In the 4th century CE was included into the system of the Roman defensive strategy in Northern Mesopotamia. In 359, Šapur II (ruled in 309-379 CE) led his army against Rome. This campaign became the break-even point in the power balance of the border lands. After...
University Press of America, 1991. — 86 p. This survey of Roman imperial grand strategy reassesses the questions of the Emperors' knowledge of military policy, of how they applied what they knew, and of how effective their efforts were in protecting the military integrity of the Roman Empire within the framework of political, diplomatic, and economic constraints. Arther Ferrill...
Thames and Hudson, 1986. — 200 p. What caused the fall of Rome? Since Gibbon’s day scholars have hotly debated the question and come up with answers ranging from blood poisoning to rampant immorality and excessive bureaucratization. In recent years, however, the most likely explanation has been neglected: was it not above all else a military collapse? Professor Ferrill believes...
University of California Press, 2019. — 272 p. In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominence—in the face of intense opposition from the newly powerful Christian church. In early 363 C.E., while living in Syrian...
Uppsala University Press, 2005. — 262 p. This book discusses Roman imperialism and runic literacy. It employs an interdisciplinary terminology. By means of terms new to archaeology, the growth of a specialized language, a technolect, is traced until it enters the realm of literacy. The author argues that there is more than one way for literacy to appear in prehistoric cultures....
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — 242 p. The Roman emperor Constantius II (337-361) has frequently been maligned as a heretic, standing in sharp contrast to his father Constantine I, who set in motion the Christianisation of the Roman world and the establishment of Nicene orthodoxy. This reputation is the result of the overwhelming negative presentation of Constantius in the...
American Academy in Rome, 1969. — 280 p. Few students of the Later Roman Empire could claim, if they were honest, that they fully understood all the nice distinctions between the various corps of palace guards — the 'protectores', the 'domestici', the 'protectores domestici', 'scholae', 'candidati', 'excubitores', 'scribones', etc. With characteristic lucidity and brevity A. H....
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 282 p. The third century AD was one of unprecedented crisis and chaos for the Roman Empire. Nightmares both internal and external threatened to spell the end of Rome’s thousand-year history. Diocletian was born either a slave or a freedman, and he grew up to become the saviour of Rome in her hour of crisis, a powerful military and political leader who...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 272 p. One of the most militarily successful Roman Emperors and also a good reformer, though often only remembered for the 'Great Persecution' of Christians. The third century AD was one of unprecedented crisis and chaos for the Roman Empire. Nightmares both internal and external threatened to spell the end of Rome’s thousand-year history....
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 272 p. One of the most militarily successful Roman Emperors and also a good reformer, though often only remembered for the 'Great Persecution' of Christians. The third century CE was one of unprecedented crisis and chaos for the Roman Empire. Nightmares both internal and external threatened to spell the end of Rome’s thousand-year history....
Newton Compton Editori, 2019. — 257 p. L’incredibile storia di una delle sfide più ardue di Roma: la battaglia di Strasburgo. La guerra civile che sconvolse l’impero romano d’Occidente tra il 350 e il 353 d.C. lasciò le frontiere indebolite, consentendo alle confederazioni dei Germani stanziate lungo il Reno di occupare parti della Gallia romana. Nel 355 l’imperatore Costanzo...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 168 p. The life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman. Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian...
Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (Impact of Empire 40). What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about...
Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (Impact of Empire 40). What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about...
Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (Impact of Empire 40). What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about...
Brill, 2021. — 252 p. — (Impact of Empire 40). In this volume, nine contributions deal with the ways in which imperial power was exercised in the fourth century CE, paying particular attention to how it was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 272 p. The Theodosian Age was a controversial and fascinating period in the Late Roman Empire. Religious controversies and barbaric strife distressed the population. However, there was a remarkable blossoming of the arts, as evidenced by the literary and philosophical trends: a paradoxical first Renaissance of the Classical World at a 'time of anxiety'....
Routledge, 2016. — 312 p. What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in the Roman Empire, and in ancient society. Drawing on the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 252 p. Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces changing attitudes toward paganism from the last empire-wide persecution of Christians...
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 by...
Reichert Verlag, 2012. — 541 p. "Die Arbeit bietet erstmals eine umfassende Interpretation des bislang veröffentlichten Materials an; sie offeriert und begründet zudem einen Rahmen für die Einordnung kunftiger Funde. Sie erschließt einen wichtigen Aspekt antiker Stadtkultur am Übergang zur Welt des Mittelalters" In: 04.12.2014. "Insgesamt hat U.G. Eine wichtige Arbeit zu den...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 365 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 55). — ISBN13 978-0-511-07322-9; ISBN10 0-511-07322-4; ISBN13 978-0-521-81349-5; ISBN10 0-521-81349-2. 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...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 224 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 27). In his reconstruction of the process and motivation of Constantine’s adoption of Christianity, the author proposes a number of new individual aspects. He commences with an analysis of the earliest testimonials by the Emperor himself after his conversion, his massive moral and material support for the...
Il Mulino, 2015. — 190 p. Il breve regno di Giuliano (venti mesi dal 361 al 363) fu in realtà una lunga campagna militare. Pronipote di Costantino, nipote di Costanzo II, Giuliano combatté i Franchi e gli Alamanni. Divenuto imperatore a sua volta, marciò verso i confini orientali dell'impero che erano minacciati dai Persiani: una spedizione catastrofica che si concluse, oltre che...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 384 p. 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 Goffart dismantles this grand...
Princeton University Press, 1980. — 296 p. Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and...
Princeton University Press, 1980. — 296 p. Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and...
University of Toronto Press, 1974. — 165 p. La réforme de Dioclétien aurait trans formé les annonae existantes en un impôt régulier se fondant sur une double unité fiscale une part la terre que peut cultiver un homme et qui suffit son en tretien le iugum autre part la capacité de travail de homme lui-même le caput étendue du iugum variait selon les régions et la qualité des...
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 Goffart...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 404 p. These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers against the lures of such an...
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'. Barbarian...
Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2022. — 359 p. Die Krisenzeit des späten 3. und frühen 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. ist für die Geschichte des Römischen Reiches von zentraler Bedeutung. Dabei kommt den Kaisern Diokletian und Konstantin eine besondere Rolle zu, steht doch Konstantins prochristliche Religionspolitik in klarer Opposition zur Politik seines Vorgängers. In der althistorischen...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 176 p. This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the northwestern regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman imperialism and Roman: ‘barbarian’...
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 it...
University of Copenhagen Press, 2007. — 317 p. A re-evaluation of military-political relations between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum in the first three centuries AD with a special emphasis on southern Scandinavia.The aim of this work is to enhance the knowledge of Roman relations to the northern Barbaricum, i.e. southern Scandinavia. The nature and extent of the northern...
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 the...
Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. — 278 p. Der Vergleich zwischen den Schicksalen Roms und unserem eigenen ist ein sehr alter und vielen Generationen hat er sich aufgedrängt. Rom, das ist die eine untergegangene Zivilisation, die der unseren zeitlich am nächsten liegt, die bei weitem den stärksten Einfluß auf sie gehabt hat, von der ein unendlicher Reichtum an...
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 the...
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...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 192 p. The Roman emperor Julian is a figure of ongoing interest and the subject of David Neal Greenwood's Julian and Christianity. This unique examination of Julian as the last pagan emperor and anti-Christian polemicist revolves around his drive and status as a ruler. Greenwood adeptly outlines the dramatic impact of Julian's short-lived...
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...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 320 p. This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of Diocletian and the conversion of Constantine the first Christian Roman emperor, the volume explores Christianity's rise as the dominant religion of the Later...
Berlin, Boston: Akademie Verlag, 2014. — 348 S. — (KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge 8). Das bisherige Fehlen systematischer Studien zu den religiös motivierte Unruhen in der spätantiken Gesellschaft muß angesichts der Aufmerksamkeit, die vor allem christliche Autoren diesen Vorfällen schenkten, erstaunen. J. Hahn untersucht nun in seinem Buch religiöse Unruhen als ein Phänomen des...
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...
Brill, 2022. — 432 p. — (Historiography of Rome and its empire 16). Ammianus Marcellinus composed a history of the Roman empire from 96 CE to 378 CE, focusing on the mid-fourth century during which he served in the army. His experience as a soldier during this period provides crucial realia of warfare, while his knowledge of literature, especially the genre of historiography,...
London: Longmans, Green and co, 1894. — 208 p. The Attitude op the Republic towards Foreign Cults. The Treatment of Judaism. First Appearance op Christianity in the Eastern Provinces. Christianity in Eome under Nero. Christianity under the Flavian Emperors. Trajan and the Christians. Persecution foe the Name. Attitude of Hadrian, Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. Christianity in its...
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...
La Découverte, 2019. — 224 p. Comment Rome est-elle passée d’un million d’habitants à 20 000 (à peine de quoi remplir un angle du Colisée) ? Que s’est-il passé quand 350 000 habitants sur 500 000 sont morts de la peste bubonique à Constantinople? On ne peut plus désormais raconter l’histoire de la chute de Rome en faisant comme si l’environnement (climat, bacilles mortels)...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 440 p. Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power - a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 440 p. Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power - a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving...
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...
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 in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 365 p. A distinct perspective on the dawn of Late Antiquity. Diocletian (284-305) and his principal successor, Constantine (306-337), would rule the Roman world for over half a century and Constantine's sons would build on their legacy. Administrative reform encouraged the rise of a bureaucratic culture, provincial government was reshaped and...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 576 p. 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 that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 576 p. 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 that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading...
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)...
Clarendon Press, 1992. — 400 p. This is a scholarly study of the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire between 350 and 500, establishing successor kingdoms in southern France and Spain (the Visigoths), and in Italy (the Ostrogoths). Our historical...
Clarendon Press, 1992. — 400 p. This is a scholarly study of the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire between 350 and 500, establishing successor kingdoms in southern France and Spain (the Visigoths), and in Italy (the Ostrogoths). Our historical...
Garzanti, 2008. — 657 p. La caduta dell'impero romano è da sempre uno dei più affascinanti enigmi della storia. Roma disponeva di una formidabile forza militare ed economica, su un territorio immenso, che si estendeva dal Vallo di Adriano ai confini con la Scozia fino all'Eufrate, dall'Africa settentrionale al Reno e al Danubio. Era una macchina perfetta e collaudata, con una...
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 evidence...
Routledge, 2021. — 198 p. The emperor Theodosius I (AD 379–395) was one of the most remarkable figures of the late antique period. In the face of religious schism, political turmoil, and barbarian threats he managed to maintain imperial power and forge a political dynasty that would dominate both east and west for over half a century. This study, the first English language...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. — 366 p. — ISBN10: 029271873X; ISBN13: 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...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Looking beyond...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — (Historia Einzelschriften 133). "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...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 432 p. In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire ,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 432 p. In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire ,...
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...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 368 p. — (General military). A dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a single generation for the centuries-old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 288 p. Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 279 p. Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been murdered by his own troops and much of Gaul and Hispania had been overrun by barbarians or...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 279 p. Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been murdered by his own troops and much of Gaul and Hispania had been overrun by barbarians or...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 208 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, 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...
Pen and Sword Military, 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...
Columbia University, 2014. — 687 p. Examining a circumscribed period of intense contact, conflict and competition between the late Roman Empire in the west, and the Sasanian Persian Empire in the east, this project reconsiders in a cross-disciplinary light those canonical objects of inquiry that shape modern characterizations of the later Roman Empire. Identifying for the first...
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 ,...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 104 р. — (BAR International Series 3101). This book discusses recent archaeological research along the Middle Danube Limes, as well as cities and fortifications in the hinterland of the Limes. This research sheds light on the process of Christianisation through the discovery of sacral architecture, sepulchral monuments and religious objects devoted to...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 240 p. In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 240 p. In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire , William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian)...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. — 285 p. Constantine hardly deserves the title of Great which posterity has given him, either by his character or by his abilities. He was highly susceptible to flattery, and fell completely under the influence of any dominating personality who happened to be at his side Still less does Constantine deserve the title of saint, which the Eastern Church...
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VOLUME I.
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...
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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. Notes. Appendix i —The largitiones and the res privata. Appendix ii—The Notitia Dignitatum. Appendix iii— Dioceses and Provinces. List of collections and periodicals cited. List of sources and abbreviations.
Routledge, 2007. — 224 p. This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 280 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups - conventionally called 'pagans' and 'heretics'. The period from the mid-fourth century until the mid-fifth century CE witnessed a...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 280 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups - conventionally called 'pagans' and 'heretics'. The period from the mid-fourth century until the mid-fifth century CE witnessed a...
Brepols, 2011. — 334 p. The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. 'The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman World' traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the...
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...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 342 p. Theodosius II (CE 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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 857 p. A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works. Sidonius Apollinaris (c.430 – c.485), poet and letter-writer, aristocrat, administrator and bishop, is one of the most distinct voices to survive from Late Antiquity and an eyewitness of the end of Roman power in the west. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris...
Walter de Gruyter, 1987. — 212 p. — (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 27). Vorwort. Einleitung. Diocletians Herrschaftsantritt. Die Ernennung Maximians zum Caesar und Augustus und die ,Epiphanie' von Iovius und Herculius. Die Ernennung der Caesares im Jahr 293. Iovius und Herculius: die Funktion der sakralen Cognomina im tetrarchischen System. Die...
Kraków: Historia Iagellonica, 2010. — 464 s. Wiek V był przełomowym okresem w dziejach późnego Cesarstwa Rzymskiego, które po śmierci cesarza Teodozjusza I trwale podzieliło się na część wschodnią i zachodnią umacniając istniejący już wcześniej rozłam językowy na świat grecki i łaciński. Podzielone Cesarstwo trwało, chociaż tradycyjny sposób życia ulegał nieuchronnej...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. – 515 p. – (Ancient Society and History). ISBN 13: 978-0-8018-9832-7 ISBN 10: 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 kingdoms...
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 way...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 424 p. One hundred years before the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, Diocletian had come to the conclusion that an empire stretching from the Rhine to the Euphrates could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a new system of governance to respond to the vastness of the Roman Empire, its new rivals, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 297 p. In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of...
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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 360 p. Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth century, and although parts were recovered by Justinian, the empire's centre of gravity shifted irrevocably to the east, with its focal...
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) List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Selected Roman Emperors during Late Antiquity Selected Persian Kings during Late Antiquity Table of Significant Events List of...
IVP Academic, 2010. — 373 p. Leithart reads the original ancient, the seminal secondary, and lots of other sources to contend that Constantine was a believer and a conciliator who sought theological agreement for the political stability it brought. Contra the influential interpretation of Anabaptist theologian John Howard Yoder, Leithart maintains that when Constantine is...
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...
University of California Press, 2003. — 470 p. Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the...
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, 2013. — 344 p. This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same...
Études Augustiniennes, 1981. — 609 p. Les études africaines ont connu deurant la dernière décennie un regain de vigueur sur les deux rives de la Méditerranée, et il est heureux que leurs résutats apportent non un éclairage uniforme, mais des jeux de lumières très nuancés sur l'Afrique antique. La thèse de C. Lepelley fera incontestablement date, tant par sa solidité que par sa...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 445 p. In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saints. Popularized by historian Peter Brown, the Cult of the Saints presupposes that a "corporeal turn" in the 4th century CE initiated a new sense of the body (even the...
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 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...
Cardiff University, 2019. — 262 p. This thesis argues that the years AD 337 to 350 gave rise to a series of events that prompted one of the earliest and most influential territorial divisions of the Later Roman Empire. Following the death of Constantine the Great, his sons, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, arranged to share power. But a failure of imperial...
Brill, 2023. — xvi, 330 p. — (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 30). This volume examines the meanings and functions of designations of peoples ("ethnonyms") in Late Antiquity. By focusing on both textual and iconographic sources, it highlights the interplay between ethnic discourses, political messages, education, and spatial thinking.
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...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 490 p. This book examines what happened to the cities of the Roman world in the years when the Roman Empire disintegrated. It traces the end of classical political culture, the impact of Christianization, and a progressive simplification of life styles in the lands, both East and West, that had been the Roman Empire.
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 the...
Routledge, 1998. — 259 p. Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of...
University of North Texas, 2014. — 113 p. This thesis explores the life and reign of Julian the Apostate the man who ruled over the Roman Empire from A.D. 361-363. The study of Julian the Apostate’s reign has historically been eclipsed due to his clash with Christianity. After the murder of his family in 337 by his Christian cousin Constantius, Julian was sent into exile. These...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 198 p. — (Giornale Italiano di Filologia - Bibliotheca 16). An extended and multiperspective critical review of Alan Cameron's monumental 2011 The Last Pagans of Rome . The end of paganism in antique Rome strongly involves the nature of the relations between pagans and Christians in the fourth century AD. The historical paradigm of conflict has been...
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...
Baylor University Press, 2013. — 248 p. The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. Specifically, author Margaret Y. MacDonald measures the impact of the New Testament's household codes (Colossians 3:18-4:1; Ephesians 5:21-6:9; the Pastoral letters) for understanding the status and role of children in...
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...
University of St Andrews, 2017. — 234 p. The focus of this thesis is Firmicus Maternus, his text the Mathesis, and their place in the intellectual culture of the fourth century AD. There are two sections to this thesis. The first part considers the two questions which have dominated the scholarship on the Mathesis and relate to the context of the work: the date of composition...
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...
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...
Yale University Press, 1984. — 200 p. How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular—rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint. MacMullen’s provocative conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle...
Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2014. — X, 263 p. — (Routledge Revivals). This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, much of it under the auspices of the Emperor, Constantine the Great. Constantine was at the heart of...
Routledge, 2014. — 280 p. — (Routledge Revivals). This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, much of it under the auspices of the Emperor, Constantine the Great. Constantine was at the heart of the transition from...
Brill Schoningh, 2019. — 548 S. — (Antike Imperien 1) — ISBN: 3506792415,9783506792419,9783657792412. Im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. etablierte Kaiser Theodosius das sogenannte Palastkaisertum und verbrachte einen großen Teil seiner Regierungszeit in Konstantinopel. Dieser wichtige Umbruch, der eine Tradition begründete, die in Ostrom bis ins 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr. andauern sollte,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. — 372 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 181). 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...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 202 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 62). This book focuses on the functioning of Roman leadership in the period of the Tetrarchs to Theodosius (284-395). Our volume starts from the idea that the imperial and ecclesiastical administrations became interdependent in this period and thus presents an integrated...
Laterza, 2013. — 148 р. Dopo Augusto non c'è stato imperatore romano che abbia regnato più a lungo di Costantino il Grande (306-337 d.C.) o che abbia fatto scelte di maggiore portata rivoluzionaria. Arnaldo Marcone traccia il ritratto a tutto tondo di un imperatore della cui azione forse non si sono ancora colti a pieno tutti gli aspetti di novità: fu Costantino infatti a dare...
Salerno, 2019. — 375 p. Avversario di Costantino, cercò di cancellare le politiche dello zio abolendo il Cristianesimo e tentando una riforma radicale dell’Impero. È al breve regno dell’imperatore Giuliano, al suo tentativo di restaurazione del paganesimo che si deve la caratterizzazione del IV secolo come un’età di conflitto religioso. In realtà è opportuno restituire a questa...
University of California – Riverside, 2017. — 434 p. This project focuses primarily on the Greek imperial panegyrics of the Roman Emperor Julian (r. 355-363 CE) and the philosopher-statesman Themistius (c. 317-389) to the Emperor Constantius II (r. 324-361), Julian and Themistius’ correspondence, and the panegyrics of the rhetoricians Claudius Mamertinus, Himerius, and Libanius...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2017. — 252 p. — (Monografie del Centro Ricerche di Documentazione sull'Antichità Classica 43). This volume offers a political biography of Galerius, which sets free the image of the tetrarch, too often considered a person who lived in the penumbra of Diocletian, and restores to his actions their own internal consistency and organic evolution over time....
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009. — 334 pages. 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...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 275 p. Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 292 p. Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better...
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...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 263 p. In the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a six-month business related journey to Antioch. The day to day details are preserved on papyrus documents and offer a remarkable record of this journey, covering everything from distances traveled to daily food purchases, from medicinal...
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, 2016. — xv, 347 p. The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume...
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...
Holzhausen Verlag, 2020. — 624 p. — (Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung zu den Wiener Dexipp-Fragmenten (Dexippus Vindobonensis), Wien, 3.-6. Mai 2017). The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire,...
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...
Mohr Siebeck, 2020. — 340 p. Cyprus was a crossroads in the ancient eastern Mediterranean, a key location between east and west, in which Judaism, Greco-Roman religions, and Christianity intersected, and where Christianity came to flourish. Bringing together scholars of religion and archaeology to study Cyprus in antiquity, this volume's contributions cover a myriad of topics,...
Brill, 1998. — 332 p. — (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology 19). This book discusses the development of the Roman army during the fourth century. The author argues that the Roman army of the fourth century was by no means inferior to its early Imperial counterpart, and in some ways even much superior. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book discusses the...
University of Cambridge, 2020. — 202 p. This thesis investigates the use of traditional philosophical concepts to legitimise new structures of power in the writings of the fourth-century Greco-Roman elite, with special attention to the emperor Julian “the Apostate” and the philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene, but including also Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine, Constantius...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. — 366 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 34). Antike Monumente und ihre Inschriften dienten seit der Etablierung öffentlicher Ehrenmonumente in der mittleren Republik als wichtige, unmittelbare Medien der Selbstdarstellung. Die vorliegende, der senatorischen Selbstdarstellung im spätantiken Rom gewidmete...
Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1917. Ватика́нский Верги́лий (лат. Vergilius Vaticanus, инвентарное обозначение Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225)— иллюминированный манускрипт, датированный последней третью IVв. н.э. В настоящее время считается, что ВВ - одна из трёх иллюминированных рукописей , сохранившихся непосредственно от античности. Источник включает в себя фрагменты «Энеиды» (9 песен) и...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 480 p. This book examines the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire. It documents an extensive correspondence between the ideals cited in honorific inscriptions for the emperor erected across the western empire and those advertised on imperial coins minted at Rome. This reveals that the dissemination of...
Liverpool University Press, 2000. — 225 p. Focusing on the first and last years of Libanius's Antiochene career (CE 354-388), this volume illustrates his great range of his rhetorical skills, while at the same time illuminating the intrigues of city politics and university life. The shorter speeches give unparalleled insights into problems of sharply contemporary relevance by...
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...
Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 256 p. In AD 383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies. Eucherius identified these as a legion recruited for the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in Egypt, whom he claimed had been massacred nearly a century...
Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 256 p. In AD 383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies. Eucherius identified these as a legion recruited for the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in Egypt, whom he claimed had been massacred nearly a century...
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 western...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — xii + 300 p. Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike much previous work on this topic, Imperial Panegyric takes a consciously...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 348 p. — (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more than...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 348 p. — (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more than...
L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 2013. — 405 p. — (Saggi di Storia Antica 36). Table of contents: Introduzione Parte prima I.La nascita di un soldato Ladventus del 458 e il panegirico di Sidonio La data di nascita e la carriera dellavo materno Il padre Il luogo di origine La formazione II.Tra due fuochi: Aezio e Valentiniano Al fianco di Aezio Il congedo Con Valentiniano III.Nel caos...
Liverpool University Press, 1987. — 132 p. The Emperor Theodosius I 'the Great' is remembered as a champion of Catholicism and for his confrontations with Ambrose, bishop of Milan. Pacatus’ "Panegyric", here made available in English for the first time, celebrates rather Theodosius' victory over the usurper Magnus Maximus, whose rebellion in Britain, murder of Gratian and...
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 – forts,...
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, 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 –...
Brepols Publishers, 2017. — 486 p. — (Instrumenta Patristica Et Mediaevalia 75). This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Ministerium Sermonis. An International Colloquium on North African Patristic Sermons (Malta, 8-10 April 2015) and hopes to give a new impetus to the study of late antique African preaching. Several contributions challenge accepted views...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. — 176 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 111). Aus dem Inhalt: E. Flaig: Für eine Konzeptionalisierung der Usurpation im Spätrömischen Reich F. Kolb: Die Gestalt des spätantiken Kaisertums unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tetrarchie J. Martin: Das Kaisertum in der Spätantike — J. Szidat: Die Usurpation Iulians. Ein Sonderfall? V. Neri: Usurpatore...
Kocewia Mała: Atryda, 2020. — 260 s. — ISBN 9788395716706 Oddana do rąk czytelnika książka to biografia jednej z najważniejszych postaci z okresu schyłku istnienia Cesarstwa zachodniorzymskiego – Flawiusza Aecjusza (ok. 390–454 r.). Ten rzymski generał (głównodowodzący sił zachodu) i polityk zasłużył się zwycięstwami w wielu kampaniach wojennych, a za swoją działalność otrzymał...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 410 S. — (Roma Aeterna: Beiträge zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter 11). Die Chronica urbis Romae erzählen von den mythischen Ursprüngen Roms, nennen zahlreiche Heroen der römischen Republik und berichten über Details aus der Regierungszeit von 58 Kaisern. Der ca. 334 n. Chr. verfasste Text beginnt mit Picus, Saturni filius, und endet mit Kaiser...
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...
Routledge, 2022. — 275 p. This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the ‘Donatist schism’ and ‘Arian controversy’. Commonly remembered as the ‘first Christian emperor’ of the Roman Empire, Constantine’s rule sealed a momentous alliance...
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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....
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 the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 368 p. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 320 p. How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — vi, 481 p. — (Brill's companions to the Byzantine world 5). Few Roman emperors enjoy such fame as Flavius Claudius Iulianus – although he was sole ruler of the Roman Empire for only eighteen months (361-363). Since his early death he has been known as Julian the Apostate – the nephew of Constantine the Great who in vain tried to reverse the...
Brill, 2020. — 480 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, 5). Few Roman emperors enjoy such fame as Flavius Claudius Iulianus – although he was sole ruler of the Roman Empire for only eighteen months (361-363). Since his early death he has been known as Julian the Apostate – the nephew of Constantine the Great who in vain tried to reverse the transformation of the...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 145 p. For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of scholarship is revealing the degree to which identities in the late Roman world...
Edinburgh University Press, 2004. — 236 p. This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire - the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment in collegiate government, a move towards...
Edinburgh University Press, 2004. — 236 p. This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire – the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment in collegiate government, a move towards...
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...
Liverpool University Press, 2024. — 352 p. Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and byzantine...
Liverpool University Press, 2024. — 352 p. Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and byzantine...
The History Press, 2016. — 128 p. Why is Constantine the Great a really ancient giant? Because he gave Christians freedom of religion. Yet also because he radically and thoroughly changed our society, in particular church-state relations, thereby creating the opportunity for the Christian community to experience exponential growth. Because his changes in government, law,...
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 the...
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...
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1996. — 173 p. — (Centre de Recherches d'Histoire Ancienne 153; Annales Litteraires de l'Universite de Franche-Comte 603). Le Bagaudisme a soulevé un grand intérêt parmi les spécialistes parce que les auteurs anciens se sont rarement occupés des humbles (on évoque les paysans rebelles uniquement lors de la répression de leurs mouvements), et que...
University of Pennsylvania, 2018. — 469 p. Merchants in the Later Roman Empire is an analysis of the social and economic lives of merchants, traders, and artisans in the 2nd to 4th centuries. It focuses, in particular, on the strategies adopted by merchants participating in small-scale local and regional trade and argues that concerns about social status were the primary...
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...
De Gruyter, 2008. — 280 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 21). During his short reign in the 4th century, Emperor Julian II, known as the Apostate, attempted to combat Christianity philosophically and to set up a pagan Neo-Platonic doctrine as a counter-programme. The volume presents a collection of papers on the general relationship between Platonism and...
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'.
University of California Press, 2011. — 361 p. Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics adhered to the Nicene creed, their...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 263 p. In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.
BAR Publishing, 1980. — 219 p. Данная работа подробно изучает историю, хронологию, топографию и археологию ряда Римских пограничных крепостей на нижнем Дунае в период поздней Римской империи (во II-IV веках н.э.).
Paideia, 2010. — 192 p. Se non c'è epoca che non pensi di doversi liberare di qualche male, per Giuliano imperatore, passato alla storia come apostata, questo male è il cristianesimo. Ricostruendo il passato di Roma mediante le categorie di puro e impuro, Giuliano delinea una storia di decadenza nella quale si rivela il volto autentico del cristianesimo: sia il perdono concesso...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1984. — 232 p. The Arabs played an important role in Roman-controlled Oriens in the four centuries or so that elapsed from the Settlement of Pompey in 64 B.C. to the reign of Diocletian, A.D. 284–305. In Rome and the Arabs Irfan Shahîd explores this extensive but poorly known role and traces the phases of the Arab-Roman relationship, especially in the climactic...
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 477 p. — (History of Warfare 61). 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...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 1070 p. Als im März 457 der Erzbischof von Alexandria ermordet wurde, war dies der Beginn der Spaltung in eine "orthodoxe" und eine "monophysitische" Kirche. Die durch die Tat ausgelöste religionspolitische Krise konnte der neu zur Herrschaft gelangte Kaiser erst drei Jahre später vorläufig beenden. Der Autor untersucht Eigenarten und Motive des dabei...
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. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 275; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 275). 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...
University of California Press, 2019. — 252 p. It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 393 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). The Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor Constantine the Great, was a society marked by social, religious, and political transformation as the empire came under the influence of the Christian Church. To understand how this period's emperors and bishops, among other political and...
Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Historii, 2019. — 266 s. — ISBN 9788366355088 Zasadniczym celem dysertacji jest rozpatrzenie dziejów późnorzymskiej administracji cywilnej w diecezji Pontu (od Dioklecjana do czasów dynastii Heraklidów). Do tej pory ta jednostka terenowa Cesarstwa Rzymskiego nie stała się przedmiotem kompleksowych studiów. Analiza obecnego...
Croom Helm, 1983. — 215 p. The Political Authorities and Christian Preaching in Palestine from the Trial of Christ to 62 CE. From Toleration to Open Persecution: Nero. Christianity and the Flavians. Trajan's Rescript and the Volte-face of the Antonine Emperors. The De Facto Tolerance of the Severan Age Philip the Arab and Decius: The First Christian Emperor and the 'Pagan...
Routledge, 2014. — 241 p. From the reign of Septimius Severus at the end of the second century C.E., the Roman Empire was continuously beset by internal unrest, revolts, usurpations, civil wars, and attacks along its far-flung frontiers. Scarcely a part of the empire was unaffected, and some areas were forced to deal with several serious problems at the same time. This book is...
Kraków : Historia Iagellonica, 2000. — 223 s. — ISBN 83-912018-6-4. Przedmiotem badań autora stały się zatem kościoły heretyckie, schizmatyckie i wspólnoty manichejskie, postawione wobec nowej dla nich sytuacji, jaką były prawne ograniczenia ich funkcjonowania, wynikające z chrystianizacji państwa rzymskiego. Logika nakazywała, aby najpierw przedstawić antyheretyckąpolitykę...
WBG Philipp von Zabern, 2023. — 1709 p. Vom Aufstieg Kaiser Diokletians bis zum Tod Kaiser Justinians I. Ernst Steins Geschichte des spätrömischen Reiches (Histoire du Bas-Empire) ist eine große Pionierleistung der Erforschung der Spätantike. Erstmals erscheinen hier die Bände in der Form ihres Entstehens: Band I auf Deutsch (Vom Römischen zum Byzantinischen Staate, 285-476),...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 252 p. Heruler, Rugier und Gepiden hatten in der Geschichtsschreibung meist nur eine Nebenrolle im Schatten der Goten und Hunnen inne. Zu Unrecht, denn diese drei Völker spielten zwischen dem 3. und dem 6. Jahrhundert auf großen Bühnen: Die drei barbarischen Verbände kämpften mit und gegen die Römer, zogen mit den Hunnen und versuchten schließlich, an der...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 252 p. Heruler, Rugier und Gepiden hatten in der Geschichtsschreibung meist nur eine Nebenrolle im Schatten der Goten und Hunnen inne. Zu Unrecht, denn diese drei Völker spielten zwischen dem 3. und dem 6. Jahrhundert auf großen Bühnen: Die drei barbarischen Verbände kämpften mit und gegen die Römer, zogen mit den Hunnen und versuchten schließlich, an der...
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 adherents...
Routledge, 2016. — 216 p. This book illuminates the origins of Roman Christian diplomacy through two case studies: Constantius II’s imperial strategy in the Red Sea; and John Chrysostom's ecclesiastical strategy in Gothia and Sasanian Persia. Both men have enjoyed a strong narrative tradition: Constantius as a persecuting, theological fanatic, and Chrysostom as a stubborn,...
Routledge, 2016. — 216 p. This book illuminates the origins of Roman Christian diplomacy through two case studies: Constantius II’s imperial strategy in the Red Sea; and John Chrysostom's ecclesiastical strategy in Gothia and Sasanian Persia. Both men have enjoyed a strong narrative tradition: Constantius as a persecuting, theological fanatic, and Chrysostom as a stubborn,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 318 p. What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history, politics, ideas, art, philosophy, pagan religion, Christian...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 585 p. Bryson's Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, and bringing up children. This estate owner is a farmer and a merchant, making his money through good and effective business. His wife is co-owner of the estate and their...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 328 p. The Military History of Late Rome Volume 457-518 provides a fresh, new look into the events that led to the collapse of West Rome, while East Rome not only survived but went on to prosper despite a series of major defeats that included, most notably, the catastrophic campaign against the Vandals in 468. The author explains what mistakes the West...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 328 p. The Military History of Late Rome Volume 457-518 provides a fresh, new look into the events that led to the collapse of West Rome, while East Rome not only survived but went on to prosper despite a series of major defeats that included, most notably, the catastrophic campaign against the Vandals in 468. The author explains what mistakes the West...
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...
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...
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...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 320 p. This is the second volume in an ambitious series giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from AD 284-641. Each volume (7 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...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 320 p. This is the second volume in an ambitious series giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from AD 284-641. Each volume (7 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...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 384 p. This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume 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 the campaigns...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 384 p. This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume 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 the campaigns...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 272 p. The Military History of Late Rome 425-457 analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This analysis reassesses the strategy and tactics of the period. The book shows how cooperation...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 272 p. The Military History of Late Rome 425-457 analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This analysis reassesses the strategy and tactics of the period. The book shows how cooperation...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65). It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but this analysis proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65). It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but this analysis proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65). It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but this analysis proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65). It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but this analysis proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65). It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but this analysis proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 458 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 210). Die römische Kaiserzeit kannte kein institutionalisiertes Verfahren, das die Übergabe der Macht an der Spitze des Reiches regelte. Ein Wechsel der Herrschaft führte daher häufig zu Krisensituationen. Joachim Szidat untersucht Kaisererhebungen und Usurpationen in der Spätantike nach 337 bis zum Ende des...
Laterza, 2010. — 133 p. Giuliano, comunemente conosciuto come Giuliano l’Apostata (Giuliano il traditore), è una delle personalità chiave del IV secolo d.C., il secolo in cui si compì il passaggio dall’impero pagano a quello cristiano. Nipote di Costantino – era nato nel 331/2 da uno dei fratellastri di quello –, sopravvissuto alle stragi che nell’estate del 337 portarono...
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...
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 century,...
Routledge, 2022. — 280 p. This book brings together a number of case studies to show some of the ways in which, as soon as the Roman Senate gained new political authority under Constantine and his successors, its members crowded the political scene in the West. In these chapters, Rita Lizzi Testa makes much of her work – the fruit of decades of research – available in English...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 232 p. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change - as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 232 p. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change - as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 232 p. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change - as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the...
Musée des antiquités nationales, 1995. — 352 p. Сборник представлен 29 статьями (эссе) ведущих европейских ученых, посвященных элите (нобилитету) Античной Римской Империи (и ранней Византии) в III-VII веках н.э. и ее политическому и военному взаимодействию с родоплеменной элитой различных варварских племен и их союзов.
Française d'Archéologie mérovingienne, 1991. — 452 p. Celle-ci a été moins bien traitée que les autres provinces malgré la mise au point de René Rebuffat (Les grandes tribus des confins africains : insurrections et alliances). L'ouvrage est partagé en trois grandes parties : L'évolution de l'armée romaine et byzantine, Rome et Byzance face aux barbares, et enfin, La...
Crossroad Press, 2016. — 398 p. Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely...
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...
Baylor University Press, 2010. — 110 p. Imperial Rome and Christian Constantinople were both astonishingly large cities with over-sized appetites that served as potent symbols of the Roman Empire and its rulers. Esteemed historian Raymond Van Dam draws upon a wide array of evidence to reveal a deep interdependence on imperial ideology and economy as he elucidates the parallel...
Weidenfeld, 1993. — 340 p. Joseph Vogt’s profound and scholarly work gives us a fresh perspective on the last three centuries of the Roman Empire. His focus is not on collapse, but on continuity. Survival and Evolution are stronger themes than decay: survival of the Roman aristocratic classes in Gaul and of classical culture in Italy; evolution within the Imperial frontiers of...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 492 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 55). Clothing and outward appearance as a means of expressing individual and collective identity were of great importance in Late Antiquity. This publication is the first interdisciplinary overview of source material and provides a critical view of opposing statements...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. — 534 S. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 91). This study inquires into the political and social significance ascribed to the urban Roman senatorial aristocracy and the senate in the first half of the fifth century CE. This volume therefore examines a topic of central significance in the history of the Roman West and Christianization,...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. — 534 S. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 91). This study inquires into the political and social significance ascribed to the urban Roman senatorial aristocracy and the senate in the first half of the fifth century CE. This volume therefore examines a topic of central significance in the history of the Roman West and Christianization,...
Macquarie University, 2022. — 116 p. This thesis examines the impacts of Roman imperialism upon the Ostrogoths and Vandals in Late Antiquity. Both the Ostrogoths and Vandals took over areas that were important to the Roman Empire and shaped them into kingdoms that benefited their own interests. This all occurred within a complex system of shifting alliances, and pressures from...
University of Sydney, 2018. — 298 p. At the turn of the fourth century, four soldiers ruled the Roman Empire: Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius and Galerius. This Tetrarchy, as modern scholars call it, was the brainchild of Diocletian, and under this emperor’s leadership, the regime brought stability to an empire shaken after a half-century of political and military...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 296 p. Examines the Tetrarchy as an experimental military dynasty. - Looks at brotherhood, empresses, imperial collegiality, military politics, hereditary succession, and the roles of sons within Roman dynasties - Musters a diverse array of evidence including archaeology, coins, statuary, inscriptions, panegyrics and invective - Engages with...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — xxii + 274 p. In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways:...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 297 p. In CE 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways: Diocletian...
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 pp.
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Oxford University Press, 2006. — 238 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...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 238 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...
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...
Routledge, 2002. — 221 p. Religion in Late Roman Britain explores the changes in religion over the fourth century; the historical background for these changes and the forces which contributed to them. Dorothy Watts examines the reasons for the decline of Christianity and the continuation of the pagan, Celtic cults in Britain. The author establishes a chronology for the rise and...
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 Abbreviations 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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. — 393 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 183). The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini....
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...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2015. — 648 S. — (KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge 19). Bei keinem anderen römischen Herrscher war die monarchische Repräsentation so tiefgreifenden Wandlungen unterworfen wie bei Constantin I., dem ersten christlichen Kaiser (306–337 n.Chr.). In besonderer Weise gilt dies für die Rolle des Kaisers als erfolgreicher Krieger und glänzender Sieger, denn gerade...
Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2015. — 391 p. — (Adam Mickiewicz University Law Books No 1). — ISBN 978-83-232-2925-4. The study focuses on vicars of dioceses (vicarius dioeceseos) of the Later Roman Empire and their judiciary capacity, which occupied one of the principal places in their duties. It is the first attempt to present the issue in scholarly research. The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 520 p. Explores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most important region of the Roman world The first modern research volume on a core region of Late Antiquity A tight and distinctly chronological focus on the second quarter of the first millennium CE, that allows for a different...
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...
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe AP, 2001. — 518 s. — ISBN 83-7271-059-7 Autor pragnie umożliwić Czytelnikom ocenę, na ile barbaryzowało się zachodnie cesarstwo rzymskie i na ile z kolei romanizowali się Germanie w służbie rzymskiej, przy czym drugi proces był znacznie silniejszy i w konsekwencji prowadził do przejmowania rzymskich osiągnięć cywilizacyjnych i administracyjnych przez...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 119 p. — (BAR International Series 3006). How did the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ change social and economic networks in eastern Gaul, and how did new ‘barbarian’ political frontiers shape those changes? Synthesising historical and archaeological approaches, this interdisciplinary study combines text-based prosopography with distribution analysis of...
British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 2004. — 110 p. — (BAR British Series 378). This study relates the significant bronze coinage of the usurper Carausius, 286-93, to the archaeological and historical evidence from the period. Since the publication of Roman Imperial Coinage. Volume V(ii) in 1933, many new and significant coin types have appeared. Several important hoards...
Routledge, 2005. — 232 p. — (Roman Imperial Biographies). 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...
Routledge, 2000. — 264 p. — (Roman Imperial Biographies). Diocletian and the Roman Recovery tells the story of this man’s remarkable reign (284-305 AD). It explores how he faced the seemingly impossible challenge of ending half a century of military rebellion and barbarian invasion, and examines the solutions he created to restore the security and stability of the Roman empire....
Akademie Verlag, 1998. — 192 p. Die folgenden Aufsätze sind aus Vorträgen entstanden, die im Wintersemester 1995/96 im Bielefelder Althistorischen Kolloquium gehalten wurden. Sie setzen verschiedene zeitliche wie regionale Schwerpunkte und verfolgen unterschiedliche inhaltliche Fragestellungen. Ihre gemeinsame Publikation erscheint jedoch angebracht, da sie einerseits zentrale...
Macquarie University, 2022. — 188 p. This thesis addresses evidence which suggests that those barbarians identified as Sclavenes in the sources never became fully integrated into the Roman system of alliances or its cultural orbit in the sixth and seventh centuries. The written and archaeological evidence available is examined to compare it with previous Roman-barbarian...
Arc Humanities Press, 2018. — 171 p. The Church was at the heart of the political and social, as well as the religious changes that look place in the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries. In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse, and he...
University of Oxford, 2017. — 343 p. This thesis is a revisionist account of the political history of the Roman Empire, from the later years of Constantine to the eve of Rome's disastrous invasion of Persia. It is a study of the reigns and governments of Constantius II, Constans, and Julian: of what they hoped to do and what they actually succeeded in doing. Necessarily, it is...
Gorgias Press, 2021. — 254 p. The present volume describes the rich and complex world in which Ausonius (c. 310-395) lived and worked, from his humble beginnings as a schoolteacher in Bordeaux, to the heights of his influence as quaestor to the Emperor Gratian, at a time of unsettling social and religious change. As a teacher and poet Ausonius adhered to the traditions of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 244 S. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 127). 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...
Изд. 3-е. — М.: Либроком, 2012. — 472 с. — (Академия фундаментальных исследований: история). — ISBN: 978-5-397-02379-5. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга российского историка и педагога Я. И. Алфионова, посвященная изучению личности и политической деятельности последнего языческого римского императора Юлиана II, известного в истории христианства под именем Юлиана...
Изд. 3-е. — М.: Либроком, 2012. — 472 с. — (Академия фундаментальных исследований: история). — ISBN: 978-5-397-02379-5. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга российского историка и педагога Я. И. Алфионова, посвященная изучению личности и политической деятельности последнего языческого римского императора Юлиана II, известного в истории христианства под именем Юлиана...
СПб.: Наука, 2017. — 303 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-039676-0. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена одному из самых драматичных периодов существования Римской империи, который начался бурным правлением Константина Великого и закончился сражением под Адрианополем, стоившим жизни императору Валенту и лучшей части его армии. Уже современники задавались вопросом, что послужило...
СПб.: Наука, 2017. — 303 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-039676-0. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена одному из самых драматичных периодов существования Римской империи, который начался бурным правлением Константина Великого и закончился сражением под Адрианополем, стоившим жизни императору Валенту и лучшей части его армии. Уже современники задавались вопросом, что послужило...
София: Лик, 2000. — 85 с. Пролог. Християнизацията. Разкази и процеси. Границите на нетолерантността. Арбитри на свещеното. Християнският светец в късната античност. Индекс.
София: Лик, 2004. — 255 с. Devotio: самовластие и елити Paideia и власт Paideia Магията на думите Гняв и благоприличие Поведението на императора Parrhеsia: философът Бедност и власт Universalis via Хранителна града Обичащите бедните Контролиращите тълпите Към християнска империя Възвишената философия Чудеса и власт Епископът и градът Sunkatabasis: Божествено снизхождение и...
София: Наука и изкуство, 1999. — 240 с. Предговор . Революцията в късната Римска Империя . Общество. Границите на класическия свят около 200 г. сл. Хр. Новите владетели: 240-350. Възроденият свят: римското общество през IV в. Религия. Новата атмосфера: насоки на религиозната мисъл, ок. 170-300. Кризата на градовете: възходът на християнството, ок. 200-300. Последните елини:...
Перевод с фр. под редакцией и с предисловием М.С. Корелина. — М.: 1892. — 584 с. Закат Римской империи – классическая тема историографии. Французский историк Гастон Буассье (Boissier,1823-1908) - современник и коллега Т. Моммзена и Я. Буркхардта – сконцентрировал свое внимание на перипетиях культурного и религиозного противостояния сторонников традиционного имперского уклада и...
М.: Типография Э. Лисснера и Ю. Романа, 1892. — 584 с. Французский историк Гастон Буассье (Boissier,1823-1908) - современник и коллега Т. Моммзена и Я. Буркхардта – сконцентрировал свое внимание на перипетиях культурного и религиозного противостояния сторонников традиционного имперского уклада и носителей нового исторического сознания, сиречь христиан. Тема классическая,...
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. – М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2003. – 367 с. ISBN 5-9524-0395-6 В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии – христианства. Автор даёт оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в...
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. – М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2003. – 367 с.
ISBN 5-9524-0395-6
В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии – христианства. Автор даёт оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в...
В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии – христианства. Автор дает оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в новую религию, сохраняя языческие культы и последовательно проводя централизацию...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 368 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-0395-6. В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии - христианства. Автор дает оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в новую религию, сохраняя языческие...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 368 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0395-6. В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии - христианства. Автор дает оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в новую религию, сохраняя языческие...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 368 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0395-6. В книге описывается переходный период от Античности к Средневековью, ознаменовавшийся приходом и укреплением в Римской империи новой религии - христианства. Автор дает оценки исторической роли императора Константина Великого, который сначала завоевал римский мир, а затем обратил его в новую религию, сохраняя языческие...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5071-4. Ирландский историк, византинист, профессор новейшей истории в Кембриджском университете Джон Багнелл Бьюри посвятил свой труд истории постепенного упадка и развала Римской империи, теснимой варварами. Автор наглядно показал, что римская армия стала не жертвой сильного внешнего противника, а оказалась разъеденной...
Монография. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5071-4. Ирландский историк, византинист, профессор новейшей истории в Кембриджском университете Джон Багнелл Бьюри посвятил свой труд истории постепенного упадка и развала Римской империи, теснимой варварами. Автор наглядно показал, что римская армия стала не жертвой сильного внешнего противника, а оказалась...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 358 с. Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной научной литературе комплексное исследование феномена языческой оппозиции христианизации Римской империи в период поздней античности. На основе широкого корпуса источников (произведений языческих и христианских историков, памятников ораторской традиции, сочинений Отцов Церкви, агиографической...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 358 с. — ISBN 978-5-9069-8080-9. Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной научной литературе комплексное исследование феномена языческой оппозиции христианизации Римской империи в период поздней античности. На основе широкого корпуса источников (произведений языческих и христианских историков, памятников ораторской традиции, сочинений...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 358 с. — ISBN 978-5-9069-8080-9. Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной научной литературе комплексное исследование феномена языческой оппозиции христианизации Римской империи в период поздней античности. На основе широкого корпуса источников (произведений языческих и христианских историков, памятников ораторской традиции, сочинений...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 359 с. — ISBN 978-5-9069-8080-9 Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной научной литературе комплексное исследование феномена языческой оппозиции христианизации Римской империи в период поздней античности. На основе широкого корпуса источников (произведений языческих и христианских историков, памятников ораторской традиции, сочинений...
Сост. М. Ф. Высокий, М. А. Тимофеев. Пер. с лат. М. Ф. Высокого, В. А. Дорофеевой. Пер. с древнегреч. В. А. Дорофеевой. Коммент., указ. М. Ф. Высокого. Научная статья, коммент. М. А. Тимофеева. — М.: РОССПЭН, 2007. — 624 с. — (Классики античности и средневековья). —ISBN 978-5-8243-08-34-1. В книге представлены сочинения латинских и греческих христианских авторов, определившие...
Прев. от англ. Владимир Свинтила. — София: ЛИК, 1999. — 664 с. Вниманието на читателя ще бъде привлечено от историята за залеза и упадъка на Римската империя — най-великия и може би най-ужасен епизод в историята на човечеството. Между развалините на Капитолия аз за първи път замислих идеята за тази работа, която занимаваше и вълнуваше живота ми близо двадесет години. Ед. Гибън
Прев. от англ. Владимир Свинтила. — София: ЛИК, 2000. — 558 с. Вниманието на читателя ще бъде привлечено от историята за залеза и упадъка на Римската империя — най-великия и може би най-ужасен епизод в историята на човечеството. Между развалините на Капитолия аз за първи път замислих идеята за тази работа, която занимаваше и вълнуваше живота ми близо двадесет години. Ед. Гибън
Пер. с англ. Б. Бриксмана. — М.: Терра – Книжный клуб, 1998. — 224 с. — ISBN: 5-300-01955-0. Эта книга повествует о нарастающем разладе, о фатальных пороках, которые в конце концов раскололи Римскую империю и не позволили ей выстоять перед внешней агрессией. Автор ведет свой рассказ от правления Валентиниана I (364–375 гг.) до 476 г., когда был низложен последний император...
Пер. с англ. Б. Бриксмана. — М.: Терра – Книжный клуб, 1998. — 224 с. — ISBN: 5-300-01955-0. Эта книга повествует о нарастающем разладе, о фатальных пороках, которые в конце концов раскололи Римскую империю и не позволили ей выстоять перед внешней агрессией. Автор ведет свой рассказ от правления Валентиниана I (364–375 гг.) до 476 г., когда был низложен последний император...
Пер. с англ. Б. Бриксмана. — М.: Терра – Книжный клуб, 1998. — 224 с. — ISBN: 5-300-01955-0. Эта книга повествует о нарастающем разладе, о фатальных пороках, которые в конце концов раскололи Римскую империю и не позволили ей выстоять перед внешней агрессией. Автор ведет свой рассказ от правления Валентиниана I (364–375 гг.) до 476 г., когда был низложен последний император...
Пер. с англ. Б. Бриксмана - М.: ТЕРРА – Книжный клуб, 1998. – 224 с., ил.
Эта книга повествует о настоящем разладе, о фатальных пороках, которые в конце концов раскололи Римскую империю и не позволили ей выстоять перед внешней агрессией. Автор ведёт свой рассказ от правления Валентиниана I до 476 г., когда был низложен последний император Западной Римской империи Ромул Августул.
Пер. с англ. Б. Бриксмана - М.: ТЕРРА – Книжный клуб, 1998. – 224 с., ил.
Эта книга повествует о настоящем разладе, о фатальных пороках, которые в конце концов раскололи Римскую империю и не позволили ей выстоять перед внешней агрессией. Автор ведёт свой рассказ от правления Валентиниана I до 476 г., когда был низложен последний император Западной Римской империи Ромул Августул.
Ростов н/Д.: Феникс, 1997. — 576 с. — (События, изменившие мир). — ISBN: 5-85880-591-4. В настоящей книге дается широкое описание политических событий, а также экономической, культурной и повседневной жизни того переломного и захватывающего периода мировой истории, который именуют «закатом античной эпохи». Обширный фактический материал и многочисленные социологические...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1997. — 576 с. — ISBN 5-85880-591-4. В настоящей книге дается широкое описание политических событий, а также экономической, культурной и повседневной жизни того переломного и захватывающего периода мировой истории, который именуют «закатом античной эпохи». Обширный фактический материал и многочисленные социологические «выкладки» служат иллюстрацией к...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1961. — 302 с. Настоящая работа не претендует на последовательное и полное изложение политической истории африканских провинций в IV–V вв. Её основная цель состоит в изучении экономических и общественных отношений и классовой борьбы. В связи с этим автор считал также необходимым рассмотреть более подробно те явления политической и религиозной жизни, которые...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1961. — 302 с. Настоящая работа не претендует на последовательное и полное изложение политической истории африканских провинций в IV–V вв. Её основная цель состоит в изучении экономических и общественных отношений и классовой борьбы. В связи с этим автор считал также необходимым рассмотреть более подробно те явления политической и религиозной жизни, которые...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1961. – 302 с.
Настоящая работа не претендует на последовательное и полное изложение политической истории африканских провинций в IV–V вв. Её основная цель состоит в изучении экономических и общественных отношений и классовой борьбы. В связи с этим автор считал также необходимым рассмотреть более подробно те явления политической и религиозной жизни, которые...
М.: Модест Колеров, 2009. — 355 с. — (Selecta. VII). — ISBN: 5-91150-001-9. Автор книги – научный сотрудник Института всеобщей истории РАН Игорь Владимирович Дубровский в предисловии пишет: «Слова о правилах и институтах – часть нашей жизни. Указывая на типическую сторону человеческих поступков и отношений, они помогают ориентироваться в социальном мире, делают его в наших...
София: Иврай, 2008 - 203 с. Теодора Ковачева. Никопол и неговият хинтерланд. Piotr Diczek, Jerzy Kolendo, Tadeusz Sarnowski. Novae. Gerda von Bulow. Iatrus - Krivina. Sven Conrad. Die Besiedlung im Iatrus und Novae an der unteren Donau. Стефка Ангелова, Иван Бъчваров. Дуросторум през Късната Античност IV - VII век. Теодора Ковачева. Сторгозия през Късната Античност и...
Смоленск: ТРАСТ-ИМАКОМ, 1995. - 334 с.
Книга кандидата исторических наук Казакова М. М. освещает одну из интереснейших и драматических эпох истории мировой цивилизации - христианизацию Римской империи в IV веке. В центре внимания автора находится личность отца церкви, выдающегося политика, епископа и писателя Амвросия Медиоланского, одной из ключевых фигур едва ли не всех...
СПб.: 1908. — 54 с.
В работе Л. П. Карсавин рассказывает о некоторых страницах истории духовной культуры Римской империи, обращаясь к произведениям Сидония Аполлинария. Аполлинарий Сидоний (ок. 430, Лугдунум (совр. Лион) – ок. 486, Арверны (совр. Клермон-Ферран) – галло-римский писатель, поэт, дипломат, епископ. Произведения Сидония Аполлинария, в особенности письма, являются...
Москва, 1999. – 220 с. ISBN: 5-900307-22-4. Монография посвящена одной из важнейших эпох в истории Римской империи и всей античной цивилизации. Глубокие преобразования, проведенные выдающимся императором-реформатором, привели к началу нового периода в римской истории. Принципат – государственный строй, сложившийся в правление Августа, в годы царствования Диоклетиана...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2016. — 144 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-310-9. Монография посвящена одной из важнейших эпох в истории Римской империи и всей античной цивилизации. Глубокие преобразования, проведенные выдающимся императором-реформатором, привели к началу нового периода в римской истории. Принципат - государственный строй, сложившийся в...
М.: Российские общественные науки: Новая перспектива, 1999. — 205 с. Монография посвящена одной из важнейших эпох в истории Римской империи и всей античной цивилизации. Глубокие преобразования, проведенные выдающимся императором-реформатором, привели к началу нового периода в римской истории. Принципат – государственный строй, сложившийся в правление Августа, в годы...
Москва, 1999. — 220 с. — ISBN 5-900307-22-4. Монография посвящена одной из важнейших эпох в истории Римской империи и всей античной цивилизации. Глубокие преобразования, проведенные выдающимся императором-реформатором, привели к началу нового периода в римской истории. Принципат – государственный строй, сложившийся в правление Августа, в годы царствования Диоклетиана...
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — 96 с. — (Великие битвы, изменившие ход истории). — ISBN: 978-5-699-47330-4. Оригинальное Название: Adrianople AD 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions. Битва при Адрианополе 9 августа 378 года нашей эры закончилась разгромом легионов и гибелью императора Валента, что стало величайшей трагедией эпохи Поздней Римской Империи. Готы, германские племена, которые в...
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — ISBN: 978-5-699-47330-4. Битва при Адрианополе 9 августа 378 года нашей эры закончилась разгромом легионов и гибелью императора Валента, что стало величайшей трагедией эпохи Поздней Римской Империи. Готы, германские племена, которые в этом сражении одержали сокрушительную победу над римскими войсками, завоевали право жить на территории Империи, а двадцать лет...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2022. — 600 с. Данная монография представляет собой прямое продолжение двухтомной монографии Е. А. Мехамадиева, изданной в 2019 г. и посвященной военной организации поздней Римской империи с 253 по 353 г. (1, 2) В своей новой книге автор рассматривает события позднеримской военной истории в период с 353 по 395 г. Основными источниками для...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2022. — 600 с. Данная монография представляет собой прямое продолжение двухтомной монографии Е. А. Мехамадиева, изданной в 2019 г. и посвященной военной организации поздней Римской империи с 253 по 353 г. (1, 2) В своей новой книге автор рассматривает события позднеримской военной истории в период с 353 по 395 г. Основными источниками для...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2022. — 600 с. Данная монография представляет собой прямое продолжение двухтомной монографии Е. А. Мехамадиева, изданной в 2019 г. и посвященной военной организации поздней Римской империи с 253 по 353 г. (1, 2) В своей новой книге автор рассматривает события позднеримской военной истории в период с 353 по 395 г. Основными источниками для...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена сложному переломному периоду в истории поздней Римской империи - второй половине III в., времени от реформ императора Галлиена до правления императора Диоклетиана, т. е. до эпохи Тетрархии. Особенность этой книги заключается в том, что впервые в отечественной и западной...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена сложному переломному периоду в истории поздней Римской империи - второй половине III в., времени от реформ императора Галлиена до правления императора Диоклетиана, т. е. до эпохи Тетрархии. Особенность этой книги заключается в том, что впервые в отечественной и западной...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена сложному переломному периоду в истории поздней Римской империи - второй половине III в., времени от реформ императора Галлиена до правления императора Диоклетиана, т. е. до эпохи Тетрархии. Особенность этой книги заключается в том, что впервые в отечественной и западной...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена сложному переломному периоду в истории поздней Римской империи - второй половине III в., времени от реформ императора Галлиена до правления императора Диоклетиана, т. е. до эпохи Тетрархии. Особенность этой книги заключается в том, что впервые в отечественной и западной...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена сложному переломному периоду в истории поздней Римской империи - второй половине III в., времени от реформ императора Галлиена до правления императора Диоклетиана, т. е. до эпохи Тетрархии. Особенность этой книги заключается в том, что впервые в отечественной и западной...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 423 с. Настоящая книга представляет собой второй, завершающий том обширного исследования по военной организации поздней Римской империи в 253—353 гг. и посвящена периоду 306—353 гг. Как и в предшествующей книге, автор рассматривает историю отдельных войсковых подразделений и региональных армий. Опираясь преимущественно на...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 423 с. Настоящая книга представляет собой второй, завершающий том обширного исследования по военной организации поздней Римской империи в 253—353 гг. и посвящена периоду 306—353 гг. Как и в предшествующей книге, автор рассматривает историю отдельных войсковых подразделений и региональных армий. Опираясь преимущественно на...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2019. — 423 с. Настоящая книга представляет собой второй, завершающий том обширного исследования по военной организации поздней Римской империи в 253—353 гг. и посвящена периоду 306—353 гг. Как и в предшествующей книге, автор рассматривает историю отдельных войсковых подразделений и региональных армий. Опираясь преимущественно на...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 224 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-00165-287-8. Римский император Константин Великий (правил в 306-337 гг.) принадлежит к числу знаковых фигур античной и мировой истории. Одной из наиболее необычных целей его правления было увековечивание своего имени и правления. Для ее достижения, среди прочего, он предпринял меры по...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 224 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-00165-287-8. Римский император Константин Великий (правил в 306-337 гг.) принадлежит к числу знаковых фигур античной и мировой истории. Одной из наиболее необычных целей его правления было увековечивание своего имени и правления. Для ее достижения, среди прочего, он предпринял меры по...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 224 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-00165-287-8. Римский император Константин Великий (правил в 306-337 гг.) принадлежит к числу знаковых фигур античной и мировой истории. Одной из наиболее необычных целей его правления было увековечивание своего имени и правления. Для ее достижения, среди прочего, он предпринял меры по...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 224 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-00165-287-8. Римский император Константин Великий (правил в 306-337 гг.) принадлежит к числу знаковых фигур античной и мировой истории. Одной из наиболее необычных целей его правления было увековечивание своего имени и правления. Для ее достижения, среди прочего, он предпринял меры по...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 252 с. В монографии исследуется социально-экономическое развитие сельских поселений Египта в период кризиса и упадка Римской империи. На обширном документальном материале папирусов прослеживаются формы землевладения и землепользования в Египте и их эволюция на протяжении IV в., социальная структура и внутренняя жизнь отдельных египетских деревень (ком)....
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1979. — 252 с.
В монографии исследуется социально-экономическое развитие сельских поселений Египта в период кризиса и упадка Римской империи. На обширном документальном материале папирусов прослеживаются формы землевладения и землепользования в Египте и их эволюция на протяжении IV в., социальная структура и внутренняя жизнь отдельных египетских деревень...
Большое значение для Римской империи имели реформы Диоклетиана, которые продолжил его последователь - Константин. Схожесть этих реформ заключается в том, что они были направлены на установление абсолютной власти императора и на создание системы Домината. А отличие лишь в том, что Диоклетиан заложил основы прогрессивных изменений, а Константин уже закрепил и развил эти реформы в...
Учеб. пособие. – Днепропетровск: Изд-во ДГУ, 1988. – 80 с.
В учебном пособии освещается обусловленность образования варварских королевств обострившейся социальной борьбой в Римской империи и стремлением провинциальных группировок крупных земельных собственников создать свои государственные машины для ликвидации социальной опасности, угнетения и закрепощения основной массы...
М.: Статут, 2010. – 278 с. – ISBN: 978-5-8354-0614-2. Автор, Леонид Иосифович Таруашвили – российский и советский искусствовед, доктор искусствоведения, почётный член РАХ. Его книга является своего рода путеводителем по не существующему больше городу – Риму, каким он был в 313 г. н.э. Именно этот год знаменует конец языческого времени в истории римской державы и ее столицы....
СПб.: Ювента, 2003. — 288 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-8739-9140-5. Монография видного медиевиста профессора Э.А. Томпсона (1914-1994) впервые переведена на русский язык. Это исследование посвящено истории Западной Европы V-VI веков, когда Западная Римская империя распалась и была заселена германскими племенами. Опираясь на раннесредневековые хроники, автор...
Пер. с англ. Т. О. Пономарёвой; под ред. М. Е. Килуновской. — СПб.: Ювента, 2003. — 286 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 5-8739-9140-5. Монография видного медиевиста профессора Э. А. Томпсона (1914–1994) впервые переведена на русский язык. Это исследование посвящено истории Западной Европы V–VI веков, когда Западная Римская империя распалась и была заселена германскими...
СПб.: Ювента, 2003. — 288 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 5-8739-9140-5. Монография видного медиевиста профессора Э.А. Томпсона (1914-1994) впервые переведена на русский язык. Это исследование посвящено истории Западной Европы V-VI веков, когда Западная Римская империя распалась и была заселена германскими племенами. Опираясь на раннесредневековые хроники, автор...
Пер. с англ. Т. О. Пономарёвой; под ред. М. Е. Килуновской. – СПб.: Ювента, 2003. — 286 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-8739-9140-5. Монография видного медиевиста профессора Э. А. Томпсона (1914–1994) впервые переведена на русский язык. Это исследование посвящено истории Западной Европы V–VI веков, когда Западная Римская империя распалась и была заселена германскими...
Пер. с англ. Т. О. Пономаревой; под ред. М. Е. Килуновской. — СПб.: Ювента, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN: 5-8739-9140-5. Предлагаемое на суд читателей русское издание книги «Римляне и варвары...», принадлежащей перу выдающегося британского ученого Э. А. Томпсона (1914—1994) — пионера и классика в изучении поздней античности и начального этапа эпохи Великого переселения народов,...
Велико Търново: Faber, 2002 - 536 с. В книгата много подробно се разглежда отбранителната система на провинция Скития, днешна Добруджа на територията на България и Румъния, в периода на Късната Античност.
Иваново: Иван. гос. ун-т, 2019. — 236 c. В монографии рассматривается судьба римской школы и образования в Южной Галлии и Италии в V – первой половине VI века, в период упадка римской государственности, формирования христианского общества и складывания варварских королевств. В центре внимания находятся вопросы самосознания позднеантичного общества, культурной преемственности и...
М.: Наука, 1992. — 130 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009100-6 Серия «Из истории мировой культуры». Поздний Рим — это явление, обладающее в истории уникальной масштабностью. Рубеж IV—V вв.— последний яркий и очень напряженный всплеск борьбы, явивший великолепие римского гения и мощный взлет новой духовной силы — христианства. Это была борьба людей, борьба личностей. Среди них — защитник...
М.: Наука, 1992. — 157 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN: 5-02-009100-6. Поздний Рим — это явление, обладающее в истории уникальной масштабностью. Рубеж IV—V вв.— последний яркий и очень напряженный всплеск борьбы, явивший великолепие римского гения и мощный взлет новой духовной силы — христианства. Это была борьба людей, борьба личностей. Среди них — защитник...
М.: Наука, 1992. — 157 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Поздний Рим — это явление, обладающее в истории уникальной масштабностью. Рубеж IV—V вв.— последний яркий и очень напряженный всплеск борьбы, явивший великолепие римского гения и мощный взлет новой духовной силы — христианства. Это была борьба людей, борьба личностей. Среди них — защитник язычества Симмах, Макробий —...
М.: Наука, 1992. — 157 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Поздний Рим — это явление, обладающее в истории уникальной масштабностью. Рубеж IV—V вв.— последний яркий и очень напряженный всплеск борьбы, явивший великолепие римского гения и мощный взлет новой духовной силы — христианства. Это была борьба людей, борьба личностей. Среди них — защитник язычества Симмах, Макробий —...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1872. — 190 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1872. — 190 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1877. — 250 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1877. — 250 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1880. — 190 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1880. — 190 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1885. — 403 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
М.: Издание К.Т. Солдатенкова, 1885. — 403 с. Немногие исторические эпохи могут представить больший интерес, чем те времена, когда христианское учение начало распространяться в римской империи и находить последователей в ее столице. Переворот, произведенный новым верованием в жизни и нравах римского общества, те особенности, которые выразились в понимании им христианских идей и...
Пер. с англ. А. В. Короленкова и Е. А. Семёновой. — М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. — 799 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-057027-0, 978-5-271-32647-9. Падение Римской империи явилось одним из самых радикальных переворотов в истории человечества, событием, которое глубоко изменило мир. Причины случившегося искали в развращённости и пресыщённости позднеримской...
Пер. с англ. А. В. Короленкова и Е. А. Семёновой. — М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. — 799 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-057027-0; ISBN: 978-5-271-32647-9. Падение Римской империи явилось одним из самых радикальных переворотов в истории человечества, событием, которое глубоко изменило мир. Причины случившегося искали в развращённости и пресыщённости позднеримской...
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2011. — 795 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-057027-0, 978-5-271-32647-9 (OCR слой) Падение Римской империи явилось одним из самых радикальных переворотов в истории человечества, событием, которое глубоко изменило мир. Причины случившегося искали в развращенности и пресыщенности позднеримской цивилизации или, напротив, в чуждом исконно римскому...
Пер. с англ. А. В. Короленкова и Е. А. Семёновой. — М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. — 799 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-057027-0, 978-5-271-32647-9. Падение Римской империи явилось одним из самых радикальных переворотов в истории человечества, событием, которое глубоко изменило мир. Причины случившегося искали в развращённости и пресыщённости позднеримской...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1997. – 147 с.
ISBN 5-211-03730-8
В монографии рассматривается сборник XII Panegyrici Latini, включающий в себя похвальные речи римским императорам от Диоклетиана до Феодосия Великого. В приложении публикуется часть последней речи сборника, впервые переведенной на русский язык. Для специалистов-историков, преподавателей вузов, студентов и всех интересующихся...
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