Barbarians and bishops : army, church, and state in the age of Arcadius and Chrysostom
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Barbarians and bishops : army, church, and state in the age of Arcadius and Chrysostom
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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Note
Bibliography: p. [279]-303
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is concerned with two themes of Late Antiquity: barbarization of the Roman army and the interrelation of Church and secular government and it illuminates the demilitarization and Christianization through the discussion of narrower themes.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 An army of mercenaries and its problems: barbarian officers and generals
- reasons for the recruiting of barbarians
- the consequences of Andrianople - rebuilding the army
- regulars, federates and "Bucellarii"
- the visigoths and Alaric's Goths. Part 2 The Eastern government and its army: the murder of Rufinus
- the rulers of the East and their military policy
- the age of Eutropius and the prefecture of Aurelian
- the fall of Gainas
- after Gainas
- the Arcadian establishment, AD 392-412
- legislation against heretics, pagans and Jews. Part 3 Chrysostom and the politicians: orthodoxy imposed at Constatinople
- the election and preaching of John Chrysostom
- Chrysostom in the Gainas crisis
- enemies and friends of John Chrysostom - the problem
- the three bishops and eudoxia
- Theophilus
- clerical opposition in Constantinople and in neighbouring provinces
- enemies in the establishment
- the rich, the poor and the West
- bishop and public life in the Cyrenaica of Synesius. Appendix: the identity of Typhos in Synesius' "De Providentia"
- Aresdius' column.
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