Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change?

ISBN-13: 9781119691372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str.

Michael Arnheim

Spis treści

About the Author ixPreface xiiIntroduction 1Part I: Transition From The Ancient To The Medieval World And Beyond 111. Rome: From Monarchy to Monarchy 132. Diocletian: Hammer of the Aristocracy 603. Constantine the Reformer 834. The Christian Empire 1185. Continuity and Change 1496. Two Models of Government 197Part II: Conflicting Theories 261Prologue to Part II 2637. Varieties of History 2738. Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 2999. The Malaria Hypothesis 30810. The Role of Religion 31511. The Pirenne Thesis 34412. "Late Antiquity" 35713. Assassination or Accommodation? 379Part III: Envoi 40914. Conclusion 411Glossary 433List of Primary Sources and Abbreviations 435Select Bibliography 439Index 452

O autorze

Dr. Michael Arnheim is a Sometime Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a practicing London Barrister. After he was awarded his Ph.D at 25, his doctoral thesis was published by the Oxford University Press under the title of The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire--the first of 23 published books to date. At age 31, Arnheim was appointed full Professor and Head of the Department of Classics at his old university in South Africa, subsequently returning to Britain to take the Bar.