LEADER 04154nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910820226503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-26503-3 010 $a0-674-03945-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039452 035 $a(CKB)2440000000013085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487169 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11339203 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487169 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442953 035 $a(PQKB)10685302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12049760 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10250448 035 $a(PQKB)11697256 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300194 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314201 035 $a(OCoLC)923110117 035 $a(DE-B1597)574351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300194 035 $a(OCoLC)1262307900 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000013085 100 $a20040519d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRuling the later Roman Empire /$fChristopher Kelly 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (341 pages) 225 1 $aRevealing antiquity ;$v15 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-01564-9 311 0 $a0-674-02244-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-325) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue: First Thoughts --$tPart I . The Bureaucrat?s Tale --$tIntroduction: John Lydus: A Man and His Book --$t1 All the Prefect?s Men --$t2 The Competition for Spoils --$tPart II. Ruler s and Ruled --$tIntroduction: Passages from the Principate to Late Antiquity --$t3 Standing in Line --$t4 Purchasing Power --$t5 Autocracy and Bureaucracy --$tEpilogue: Last Judgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy. The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures. This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government. 410 0$aRevealing antiquity ;$v15. 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zRome 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zByzantine Empire 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government$y284-476 607 $aByzantine Empire$xPolitics and government$yTo 527 607 $aRome$xOfficials and employees 607 $aByzantine Empire$xOfficials and employees 615 0$aElite (Social sciences) 615 0$aElite (Social sciences) 676 $a937/.09 700 $aKelly$b Christopher$f1964-$0622658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820226503321 996 $aRuling the later Roman Empire$91092733 997 $aUNINA