428 AD (eBook)

An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

Giusto Traina (Autor)

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2011
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3286-6 (ISBN)

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Giusto Traina is professor of Greek history at the University of Rouen. He is the author of several previous books on Roman and Greek history.

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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 takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. Taking readers on a journey through the region, Giusto Traina describes the empires' people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. Readers meet many important figures, including the Roman general Flavius Dionysius as he encounters a delegation from Persia after the Sassanids annex Armenia; the Christian ascetic Simeon Stylites as he stands and preaches atop his column near Antioch; the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as he prepares to commission his legal code; and Genseric as he is elected king of the Vandals and begins to turn his people into a formidable power. We are also introduced to Pulcheria, the powerful sister of Theodosius, and Galla Placidia, the queen mother of the western empire, as well as Augustine, Pope Celestine I, and nine-year-old Roman emperor Valentinian III. Full of telling details, 428 AD illustrates the uneven march of history. As the west unravels, the east remains intact. As Christianity spreads, pagan ideas and schools persist. And, despite the presence of the forces that will eventually tear the classical world apart, Rome remains at the center, exerting a powerful unifying force over disparate peoples stretched across the Mediterranean.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2011
• Vorwort: Averil Cameron
• Zusatzinfo: 10 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alans • Ardabur (consul 427) • aristocracy • Asceticism • Ataulf • Barbarian • Bonifacius • Callinicus • Central Asia • Chalcedon • Christian • Christianity • christianization • Christian monasticism • Clergy • Constantinople • Council of Ephesus • Cyril of Alexandria • Diocese • diocletian • diplomatic mission • Easter Vigil • Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople • Edessa • edict • Episcopal see • Epistle • fall of the western roman empire • federico • Firmus (4th-century usurper) • Foederati • Galla Placidia • Hagiography • Heresy • HUNS • Hydatius • Illyrians • Iranian Peoples • Jews • Jordanes • Judea (Roman province) • Julian (emperor) • Late Antiquity • Lausiac History • Les belles lettres • Literature • Manichaeism • Merovingian dynasty • Monastery • Monasticism • Neoplatonism • Nestorius • Orthodoxy • Ostrogoths • Paganism • Parthian Empire • paulinus of nola • Persecution • Persian people • Philae • Place of Worship • placidia • Pope • Prelate • Prosper of Aquitaine • pulcheria • Quodvultdeus • Rabbula • Rapprochement • Religion • Roman Empire • Saint Stephen • Samaritans • saracen • sasanian empire • Superiority (short story) • The Christian Community • The Goths • the monastery • theocracy • Theodoret • Theodosius I • Theodosius II • Theodotus • Theology • The Other Hand • The translator • treatise • Upper Egypt • Valentinian III • Valentinian (play) • vandal kingdom • vandals • Visigoths • Volusianus • Vortigern • warfare • western roman empire • Writing • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3286-1 / 1400832861
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3286-6 / 9781400832866