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Attila the Hun : barbarian terror and the fall of the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9781844139156 1844139158 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Vintage

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Ruling the later Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0674015649 9780674015647 0674022440 0674039459 0674265033 Year: 2004 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy. The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures. This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government.

Ruling the Later Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0674039459 9780674039452 0674022440 9780674022447 0674015649 9780674015647 9780674022447 0674015649 9780674015647 0674265033 Year: 2006 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy. The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures. This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government.

The Roman Empire : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 142948716X 0191516783 1280752726 9780191516788 9780191577840 0191577847 9786610752720 6610752729 9781429487160 9781280752728 0192803913 9780192803917 9780191775871 0191775878 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. This introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions and social structures. It explains how it deployed violence, 'romanisation', and tactical power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture from Rome to its furthest outreaches.


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Theodosius II
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ISBN: 1107272785 1139892819 1107272106 1139839071 1107278686 1107274192 1107275431 1107277450 9781461936718 1461936713 9781107275430 9781139839075 9781107038585 1107038588 9781107274198 110881641X 1299772897 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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Theodosius II (AD 408-450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.


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The end of empire : Attila the Hun and the fall of Rome
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ISBN: 9780393061963 0393061965 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Norton,

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A bold new account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome reframes the warrior king as a political strategist, capturing the story of how a small, but dedicated, opponent dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.

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Huns --- Huns --- History. --- Attila, --- Rome --- History


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Rousseau's exemplary life: the Confessions as political philosophy
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ISBN: 0801419360 Year: 1987 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University

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A full and circumstantial account of the memorable battle of Waterloo : the second restoration of Louis XVIII ; and the deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the island of St. Helena ...
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Year: 1818 Publisher: London Kelly

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Rousseau's Exemplary Life : The Confessions as Political Philosophy
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ISBN: 150174593X Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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In this stimulating reading of Rousseau's Confessions, Christopher Kelly breaks down the artificial distinction traditionally made between this autobiographical work and Rousseau's overtly philosophical works. At the same time, Kelly provides us with the most complete commentary on the Confessions written in any language.

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