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Corruption and the decline of Rome /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-2022 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1988.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Choosing a theme:
  • Contemporary views
  • Quantifying decline
  • A regional survey
  • Some general explanations
  • pt. 2. Power effective:
  • The objective in outline
  • The appearance of power
  • How power worked: though fear
  • How power worked: through: favor
  • Potentiores and the government
  • Why private power worked
  • pt. 3. Power for sale:
  • Privatizing of public office in the principate
  • Developments increasing profits from public office in the dominate
  • The extent of privatization in late Roman government
  • Assessment of privatization in government
  • pt. 4. The price of privatizing government:
  • Deterioration in the military
  • Losses, case by case
  • Power-loss in layers
  • Appendices: Fourth-century barbarians
  • Leaders
  • Soldiers in cities.