Byzantium and the Decline of Rome

by: Kaegi, W.E.

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Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire
Walter Emil Kaegi

About this book
Professor Kaegi studies the response of the eastern half of the Roman Empire to the disintegration of western Rome, usually dated from the sack of the city of Rome in A.D. 410. Using sources from the fifth and sixth centuries, he shows that the eastern empire had a clear awareness of, interest in, and definite opinions on the disasters that befell Rome in the west. Religious arguments, both Pagan and Christian, tended to dominate the thinking of the intellectuals, but economic and diplomatic activity also contributed to the reaction. This reaction, the author finds, was in a distinctly eastern manner and reflected quite naturally the special conditions prevailing in the eastern provinces.

Originally published in 1968.

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Key to coins

I. Eastern Emperors and Western Crises: Official Eastern Responses to the Deterioration of the Western Roman Empire

II. Political and Religious Pagan Protests: Political and Religious Criticism and Opposition in the East, 400-475

III. Zosimus and the Climax of Pagan Historical Apologetics

IV. The Diversity of Christian Reactions

V. Divine Providence and the Roman Empire: A Positive Eastern Christian Interpretation of Recent History

VI. Conclusions

Annotated Bibliography

Index

Byzantium and the Decline of Rome

by: Kaegi, W.E.

• ISBN-13: 9780691035109 / 978-0-691-03510-9
• ISBN-03: 0691035105 / 0-691-03510-5
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1968

Price: 56,00 EURO

1 copy in stock