Western aristocracies and imperial court, A.D. 364-425
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Western aristocracies and imperial court, A.D. 364-425
(Clarendon paperbacks)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990, c1975
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Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1975
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later fourth and early fifth centuries. A postscript updates the book with regard to the last fifteen years of related scholarly research.
Table of Contents
- The governing classes
- the ascendany of Ausonius
- the accession of Theodosius
- Christianity and the court - Constantinople
- the provincial upper classes - evangelism and heresy
- the usurpation of Maximus
- Christianity and the court - Milan
- Theodosius and the West
- the regime of Stilicho
- Alaric, Rome, Ravenna
- Gaul and Spain (406-418)
- "Ordo Renascendi" - Gaul, Italy
- East and West
- Olympiodorus and Rome.
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