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

J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

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Bibliography: p. [279]-303

Includes index

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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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