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02948aam a2200373 i 4500 001 D3644D60166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 190708t20192019mauabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019020656 020 $a 0674660137 020 $a 9780674660137 035 $a (OCoLC)1089967733 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ff----- $a aw----- $a ff----- 050 00 $a DG270 K855 2019 100 1 $a Kulikowski, Michael, $d 1970- $e author. 245 14 $a The tragedy of empire : $b from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy / $c Michael Kulikowski. 250 $a First Harvard University Press edition. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "First published as Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy (AD 363-568) in Great Britain in 2019 by PROFILE BOOKS LTD"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The making of the Constantinian Empire -- The failures of Julian -- The Valentiniani -- Adrianople and the coup of Theodosius -- The reign of Theodosius I -- Stilicho and his rivals -- Galla Placidia and Flavius Constantius -- The reign of Theodosius II -- Placidia, Aetius, and Valentinian III -- The fall that no one noticed -- After the Theodosians -- Zeno and Anastasius -- The western kingdoms -- The Franks and the imperial periphery -- From Rome to Byzantium. 520 $a "The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes readers to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian's rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Rome $x History $y Empire, 284-476. 651 0 $a Rome $x History $y Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. 651 0 $a Rome $x Kings and rulers. 611 27 $a Germanic Invasions of Rome (3rd-6th centuries) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353189 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304011347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D3644D60166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search