Theodosius II : rethinking the Roman empire in late antiquity /
"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' c...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2013
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction: Rethinking Theodosius / Christopher Kelly
- Part II. Arcana Imperii: Men without women : Theodosius' consistory and the business of government / Jill Harries
- Theodosius and his generals / Doug Lee
- Theodosius II and the politics of the first Council of Ephesus / Thomas Graumann
- Olympiodorus of Thebes and eastern triumphalism / Peter Van Nuffelen
- Part III. Past and Present: Mapping the world under Theodosius II / Giusto Traina
- The insanity of heretics must be restrained : heresiology and the Theodosian Code / Richard Flower
- Writing in Greek : classicism and compilation, interaction and transformation / Mary Whitby
- Part IV. Pius Princeps: Stooping to conquer : the power of imperial humility / Christopher Kelly
- The imperial subject : Theodosius II and panegyric in Socrates' Church History / Luke Gardiner
- Theodosius II and his legacy in anti-Chalcedonian communal memory / Edward Watts.
