Research Catalog
The tragedy of empire : from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy
- Title
- The tragedy of empire : from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy / Michael Kulikowski.
- Author
- Kulikowski, Michael, 1970-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-325 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 25 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353) and index.
- Contents
- The making of the Constantinian Empire -- The failures of Julian -- The Valentiniani -- Adrianople and the coup of Theodosius -- The reign of Theodosius I -- Stilicho and his rivals -- Galla Placidia and Flavius Constantius -- The reign of Theodosius II -- Placidia, Aetius, and Valentinian III -- The fall that no one noticed -- After the Theodosians -- Zeno and Anastasius -- The western kingdoms -- The Franks and the imperial periphery -- From Rome to Byzantium.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-325
- ISBN
- 9780674660137
- 0674660137
- 9780674242722 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780674242715 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780674242708 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019020656
- 40029501940
- OCLC
- 1089967733
- Author
- Kulikowski, Michael, 1970- author.
- Title
- The tragedy of empire : from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy / Michael Kulikowski.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Harvard University Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 200-599
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029501940
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-325