Corruption and the decline of Rome /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1988.
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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.