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Chargement... A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450)par Fergus Millar
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a research book that I found useful, but not as much as I had hoped. The author is a historian and this book is based on a series of lectures he gave as a Sather guest lecturer at Berkeley. He draws on a wealth of documents from the Theodosian Code and Church records of key ecumenical councils to make his case for how power was wielded during the long reign of Theodosius II. A key point is indicated in his title "A Greek Roman Empire"--how the eastern portion of the Roman Empire was essentially Greek in nature, language and culture and how that influenced the imposed Roman government. I found the writing academic and dense, but in some ways limited. In spite of the huge amount of material the author had available to use as quotes and examples, he consistently went back to the same four or five. I suppose that is the nature of lectures. He wanted to build on examples already given and could use those "go to" examples as shorthand rather than introducing new examples with the accompanying background information. He did introduce me to a number of primary sources, I otherwise would not have known about. I would recommend this book as a reference to anyone studying this time period, but not for the casual reader of history. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there was a stable and successful system, using Latin as its official language, but communicating with its subjects in Greek. This book takes an inside look at how this system worked in the long reign of the pious Christian Emperor Theodosius II (408-50), and analyzes its largely successful defense of its frontiers, its internal coherence, and its relations with its subjects, with a flow of demands and suggestions traveling up the hierarchy to the Emperor, and a long series of laws, often set out in elaborately self-justificatory detail, addressed by the Emperor, through his officials, to the people. Above all, this book focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State's involvement in intensely-debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. Between the Law codes and the acts of the Church Councils, the material illustrating the working of government and the involvement of State and church, is incomparably richer, more detailed, and more vivid than for any previous period. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)949.5013History and Geography Europe Other parts Greece and the Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- 323-1453 Greek revivial 323-716Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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