428 AD : : An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire / / Giusto Traina.
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity ta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 10 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Travels of Flavius Dionysius and the End of Armenia
- II. The World of Nestorius: Bishops, Monks, and Saracens
- III. On the Pilgrim's Road
- IV. The New Rome and Its Prince
- V. The Anatomy of an Empire
- VI. From Ravenna to Nola: Italy in Transition
- VII. Trial Runs for the Middle Ages
- VIII. Waiting for the Vandals
- IX. Pagans and Christians on the Nile
- X. Easter in Jerusalem
- XI. The Great King and the Seven Princesses
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index