The Falls of Rome - Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity

Focuses on the resilience of generations of Roman men and women, and their ability to reconstitute their city and society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Approaches to the fate of the Late Antique City; 2. The Constantinian compromise; 3. Responses to the sack of Rome in 410; 4. Rome after the 455 vandal occupation; 5. Why Gibbon was wrong; 6. The fall of Ostrogothic Rome and the Justinianic reconstruction; 7. The demise of the senate.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michele Renee Salzman is Professor and Chair in the department of history at the University of California, Riverside. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem, she is the author of On Roman Time: The Codex Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity and The Making of a Christian Aristocracy and General Editor of The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World. She has also published The Letters of Symmachus. Book 1. Introduction, text and commentary. Translation with Michael Roberts, and co-edited two books, Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Conflict, Competition and Coexistence in the Fourth Century, with M. Sághy and R. Lizzi Testa, and Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, with E. Albu, H. Drake, M. Maas, and C. Rapp.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michele Renee Salzman, Salzman Michele Renee
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.09.2024
• EAN: 9781107529090
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52909-0
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Gewicht: 747 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Europe, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval European archaeology