East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion /

"East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 20.
Temas:
To 1500
Social change > Rome > History.
Roman provinces > History.
Land settlement > Syria > History > To 1500.
Church history > To 1500.
Église > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Church history
Ethnic relations
International relations
Land settlement
Roman provinces
Social change
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476.
Rome > Ethnic relations.
Rome > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Rome.
Rome > Relations > Syria.
Syria > Relations > Rome.
Rome > Histoire > 284-476 (Bas-Empire)
Europe
Rome (Empire)
Syria
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. The West
  • Rubbish disposal in Greek and Roman cities
  • Was there a crisis of the third century?
  • Transformation and decline : are the two really incompatible?
  • Unsustainable development : the origins of ruined landscapes in the Roman Empire
  • Warlords and landlords
  • The debate about the ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes
  • Making a Gothic history : does the Getica of Jordanes preserve genuinely Gothic traditions?
  • Why did Jordanes write the Getica?
  • Habitus Barbarus : did Barbarians look different from Romans?
  • Barbarians and taxes
  • Violence in the Barbarian successor kingdoms
  • Goths and Romans in the Leges Visigothorum
  • Part 2. The East
  • [1] Syria : defence and settlement
  • The impact of the imposition of Roman rule on northern Syria
  • Nomads, phylarchs and settlement in Syria and Palestine
  • Late late antiquity (6th and 7th centuries) in the cities of the Roman Near East
  • Arab tribesmen and desert frontiers in late antique Syria
  • [2] Paganism and Christianity
  • Julian's hymn to the Mother of the Gods : the revival and justification of traditional religion
  • The view from Antioch : from Libanius via John Chrysostom to John Malalas and beyond
  • From Antioch to Piazza Armerina and back again
  • Theodoret's Graecarum affectionum curatio, defending Christianity in Christian syria
  • The school of Antioch and its opponents
  • [4] The Balkans : a contrast
  • The lower Danube region under pressure : from Valens to Heraclius.

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