| Description |
xix, 203 p. : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-181) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 from Rome to Constantinople. Retracing the kind of route a contemporary gazetteer might have taken, Giusto Traina describes the empire's people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. --from publisher description |
| Subject |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
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Europe -- History -- To 476.
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History, Ancient.
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| Added Title |
428 A.D. |
| ISBN |
9780691136691 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0691136696 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780691150253 (pbk.) |
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0691150257 (pbk.) |
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