East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion / / by Wolf Liebeschuetz

• Autore: Liebeschuetz J. H. W. G (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon)
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (507 p.)
• Disciplina: 937.09
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Rome - History; Roman provinces - History
• Soggetto geografico: Rome History Empire, 284-476; Rome Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 1 Rubbish Disposal in Greek and Roman Cities / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 2 Was There a Crisis of the Third Century? / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 3 Transformation and Decline: Are the Two Really Incompatible? / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 4 Unsustainable Development: The Origin of Ruined Landscapes in the Roman Empire / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 5 Warlords and Landlords / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 6 The Debate about the Ethnogenesis of the Germanic Tribes / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 7 Making a Gothic History: Does the Getica of Jordanes Preserve Genuinely Gothic Traditions? / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 8 Why did Jordanes Write the Getica? / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 9 Habitus Barbarus: Did Barbarians Look Different From Romans? / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 10 Barbarians and Taxes / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 11 Violence in the Barbarian Successor Kingdoms / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 12 Goths and Romans in the Leges Visigothorum / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 13 The Impact of the Imposition of Roman Rule on Northern Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 14 Nomads, Phylarchs and Settlement in Syria and Palestine / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 15 Late Late Antiquity (6th and 7th Centuries) in the Cities of the Roman Near East / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 16 Arab Tribesmen and Desert Frontiers in Late Antique Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 17 Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods: The Revival and Justification of Traditional Religion / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 18 The View from Antioch: From Libanius via John Chrysostom to John Malalas and Beyond / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 19 From Antioch to Piazza Armerina and Back Again / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 20 Theodoret’s Graecarum affectionum curatio: Defending Christianity in Christian Syria / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 21 The School of Antioch and Its Opponents / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- 22 The Lower Danube Region under Pressure: From Valens to Heraclius / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- Index / Wolf Liebeschuetz.
• Sommario/riassunto: East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs.
• Titolo autorizzato: East and West in late antiquity
• ISBN: 90-04-28952-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797161303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; ; Volume 20.