From the tetrarchs to the Theodosians [electronic resource] : later Roman history and culture, 284-450 CE / edited by Scott McGill, Cristiana Sogno, Edward Watts.

"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 across the period and argues that, in spite of the stress pl...

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Other Authors: McGill, Scott, 1968-
Sogno, Cristiana, 1969-
Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Yale classical studies ; v. 34.
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From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman History and Culture, 284–450 CE
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Unity of the Roman Empire / David Potter
  • Roman patronage / Peter Garnsey
  • Roman matchmaking / Cristiana Sogno
  • Constantine the lawgiver / Jill Harries
  • Constantine answers the veterans / Serena Connolly
  • Three generations of Christian philosophical biography / Edward Watts
  • The education of Paulinus of Pella: learning in the late empire / Josiah Osgood
  • Another man's miracles: recasting Aelius Donatus in Phocas's Life of Virgil / Scott McGill
  • Gregory of Nazanzius's Life of Julian revisited (Or. 4 and 5): the art of governance by invective / Susanna Elm
  • Liar in winter: Themistius and Theodosius / Peter Heather
  • Moments of truth: Gregory of Nazanzius and Theodosius I / Neil McLynn
  • Reinventing Constantinople: Theodosius I's imprint on the imperial city / Brian Croke
  • Reinventing history: Jerome's Chronicle and the writing of the post-Roman West / Mark Vessey