The tragedy of empire : from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy /

The tragedy of empire : from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy /

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Author / Creator:	Kulikowski, Michael, 1970- author.
Edition:	First Harvard University Press edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xi, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Germanic Invasions of Rome (3rd-6th centuries) Kings and rulers. Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476. Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. Rome -- Kings and rulers. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11966678

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ISBN:	9780674660137 0674660137 9780674242722 9780674242715 9780674242708
Notes:	"First published as Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy (AD 363-568) in Great Britain in 2019 by PROFILE BOOKS LTD"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes readers to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian's rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited"--

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