The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

INTRODUCTION the later Roman empire, or late antiquity, and Byzantium has proved difficult. Many books on Byzantium choose the i ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY a guide to Christian learning written at his Italian monastery of Vivarium in Caiabria ...

INTRODUCTION Ethiopic; the frequency of translation to and from Greek and eastern lan- guages, especially Syriac, is a very impo ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY recent publications provide overall or regional surveys of archaeological evidence; th ...

INTRODUCTION be enough to refer to some of the responses to Horden and Purcell’s first volume, The Corrupting Sea.^25 Other majo ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY PART II The fourth century Although the overall period covered in this book begins onl ...

INTRODUCTION already offered to Christians.^30 But Constantine had not waited until 324 to introduce change; already in the wint ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY that in his newly refounded city of Constantinople (‘the city of Constantine’), begun ...

INTRODUCTION this formula was now represented by groups variously known as Anomoeans or Homoeans. Constantine himself had veered ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY Julian’s eccentricities also managed to alienate the pagan population, who lampooned a ...

INTRODUCTION by Rome. But by 376 Gothic envoys had come to Valens in Antioch asking to be allowed to cross the Danube into Thrac ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY Both Heather and Ward-Perkins, especially the former, are mainly concerned with the we ...

INTRODUCTION only on pagans and Jews but also on heretics.^54 Penalties against Manichees, ‘Eunomians’, ‘Phrygians’, ‘Priscillia ...

1 CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE The city of Constantinople On the death of Theodosius I in AD 395, Constantinople had be ...

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE Apostles adjoining Constantine’s mausoleum.^8 Constantius was extremely pious himself, but ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY ordered Arians to be expelled from churches, and promoted the orthodox Gregory of Nazi ...

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE by Synesius, who visited Constantinople sometime during these years as an envoy from Cyren ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY Mese) leading to Constantine’s oval forum with its statue of himself wearing a crown o ...

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE administrative diffi culties.^16 But in practice, during this period, the eastern governme ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY of Synesius, were raised in favour of expelling the Goths. When Gainas attacked Consta ...