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Ruling the later Roman Empire /
"The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system i...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Revealing antiquity ;
15. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The bureaucrat's tale. Introduction: John Lydus: a man and his book. All the prefect's men ; The competition for spoils
- Rulers and the ruled. Introduction: Passages from the principate to late antiquity. Standing in line ; Purchasing power ; Autocracy and bureaucracy
- Epilogue: Last judgments.