428 AD : an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire /
By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a 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 f...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Italiano |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The travels of Flavius Dionysius and the end of Armenia
- The world of Nestorius: bishops, monks, and saracens
- On the pilgrim's road
- The New Rome and its prince
- The anatomy of an empire
- From Ravenna to Nola: Italy in transition
- Trial runs for the Middle Ages
- Waiting for the vandals
- Pagans and Christians on the Nile
- Easter in Jerusalem
- The great king and the seven princesses.