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Reagieren und Gestalten : der Regierungsstil des spätrömischen Kaisers am Beispiel der Gesetzgebung Valentinians I
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ISBN: 9783406572685 3406572685 Year: 2008 Volume: 58 Publisher: München : Beck,

Failure of empire
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ISBN: 0520928539 1597346101 0520233328 0520283899 9780520928534 9780520233324 9781597346108 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.

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ISBN: 1282644572 9786612644573 0472025627 9780472025626 0472115294 9780472115297 9781282644571 6612644575 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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