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Ruling the later Roman Empire / / Christopher Kelly



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Autore: Kelly Christopher <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ruling the later Roman Empire / / Christopher Kelly Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass. : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 pages)
Disciplina: 937/.09
Soggetto topico: Elite (Social sciences) - Rome
Elite (Social sciences) - Byzantine Empire
Soggetto geografico: Rome Politics and government 284-476
Byzantine Empire Politics and government To 527
Rome Officials and employees
Byzantine Empire Officials and employees
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-325) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: First Thoughts -- Part I . The Bureaucrat’s Tale -- Introduction: John Lydus: A Man and His Book -- 1 All the Prefect’s Men -- 2 The Competition for Spoils -- Part II. Ruler s and Ruled -- Introduction: Passages from the Principate to Late Antiquity -- 3 Standing in Line -- 4 Purchasing Power -- 5 Autocracy and Bureaucracy -- Epilogue: Last Judgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Ruling the later Roman Empire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-26503-3
0-674-03945-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780762603321
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Serie: Revealing antiquity ; ; 15.