The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781107111424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 462 str.

Michele Renee Salzman

Opis

Focuses on the resilience of generations of Roman men and women, and their ability to reconstitute their city and society.

Recenzje

'This book makes it clear that the elite that continued to support the Old Capital did believe in the legacy of Rome and in the preservation of the values of Romanitas. Any scholar of late antique Rome will benefit from this book.' Massimiliano Vitiello, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

1. Approaches to the fate of the Late Antique City; 2. The Constantinian compromise; 3. Responses to the sack of Rome in 410; 4. Rome after the 455 vandal occupation; 5. Why Gibbon was wrong; 6. The fall of Ostrogothic Rome and the Justinianic reconstruction; 7. The demise of the senate.