Contested monarchy : : integrating the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD / / edited by Johannes Wienand ; Bruno Bleckmann [and seventeen others], contributors.
Contested Monarchy reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the century from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395), a period during which the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on t...
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| Superior document: | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Oxford University Press,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (553 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Contested Monarchy reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the century from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395), a period during which the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on the emperor''s mobility, on collegial or dynastic rule, and on the military resolution of internal political crises. At the same time, profound religious changes modified the premises of political interaction and symbolic communication between the emperor and his subjects, and administrative and mili |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0190201746 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Johannes Wienand ; Bruno Bleckmann [and seventeen others], contributors. |