[PDF] Theodosius Ii eBook

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 110727690X

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Theodosius II (AD 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 scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107038588

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A fresh look at the vitality and integrity of the eastern Roman Empire under its longest reigning emperor.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520253914

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"This masterful study will have its place on every ancient historian's bookshelf."—Claudia Rapp, author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Rome
ISBN : 9781461936718

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A fresh look at the vitality and integrity of the eastern Roman Empire under its longest reigning emperor.

Author : Gerard Friell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 113578261X

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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 concerning this Roman emperor, studying his military and political struggles, which he fought heroically but ultimately in vain. Summoned from retirement to the throne after the disastrous Roman defeat by the Goths at Adrianople, Theodosius was called on to rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. He instituted a new policy towards the barbarians, in which diplomacy played a larger role than military might, at a time of increasing frontier dangers and acute manpower shortage. He was also the founder of the established Apostolic Catholic Church. Unlike other Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and enforced orthodoxy by law. The path was a diffucult one, but Theodosius (and his successor, Stilicho) had little choice. This new study convincingly demonstrates how a series of political misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western empires which meant that the overlordship of Rome in Europe dwindled into mere ceremonial. The authors examine the emperor and his character and the state of the Roman empire, putting his reign in the context of the troubled times.

Author : P. R. Coleman-Norton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725255642

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This collection of legal documents affecting the Christian Church in the Roman Empire is the first its kind in any language. In time the monuments here translated cover the period from the foundation of the Church to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor in the West (476), and to the publication of the second (and only extant) edition of the Code of Justinian I, the most conspicuous champion of Caesaropapism in the East (534)—each terminus ad quem being an arbitrary, but a natural, limit. The character of the originals, which are mostly in either Greek or Latin, is strictly secular, that is, the documents emanate from the State’s officials, ordinarily the emperors, and thus expose the State’s attitude toward the Church. —From the Introduction

Author : Kenneth G. Holum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1989-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520068017

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Theodosian Empresses sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern court in the fifth century.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520247031

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Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1958-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486203999

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An unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition.