The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS Ostrogothic Italy retained many continuities with the Roman past,^26 among them the survival of ma ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY visited by the Lady Philosophy, and engages in extended discussion of fate, free will ...

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS class, as did Pope Gregory the Great.^36 Germanic law existed in uneasy jux- taposition with Roman ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY identify the reasons in individual cases. In the same way, it is often impos- sible to ...

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS The convenient practice of using barbarian troops as federates for the Roman army, a prominent fea ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY one-third rather than two-thirds; the rent paid on the share thus received was itself ...

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS that of the early empire.^57 Many of the changes, such as the stationing of troops in or near citi ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY and more from within the confi nes of the empire itself. There is little direct eviden ...

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS position to control the empire by military means. We must therefore conclude that the high fi gure ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY against invaders from outside the empire but also for the maintenance of internal secu ...

THE EMPIRE AND THE BARBARIANS moral factors or individuals, we need to be fully aware how far such judge- ments have been condit ...

3 CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES In the eighty or so years that elapsed between the so-called Edict of Milan (AD 313) and t ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES Even when the power of religious beliefs to exercise a dynamic force in history is recognize ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY major churches were those of the Holy Apostles, the fi rst church of St Sophia and tha ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES S. Apollinare Nuovo (c. 490) and S. Apollinare in Classe (530s–540s) at Ravenna.^18 S. Maria ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY Justinian’s ‘Great Church’ of St Sophia still stands in Istanbul where it was dedicate ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES † Having vowed, they fulfi lled their vow to (the church of) Sts Sergios and Bacchos. † Serg ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY The rise of bishops As Constantine had realized, the network of bishoprics gave the Ch ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES exile. The church historian Socrates comments on the number of enemies the latter made throu ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY training in the classical rhetoric that still formed the main content of higher educat ...