The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine - Couverture rigide

Southern, Patricia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415239435 ISBN 13 : 9780415239431

Editeur : Routledge, 2001

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The third century AD in the Roman Empire began and ended with Emperors who are recognised today as being strong and dynamic - Septimius Severus, Diocletian and Constantine. Yet the intervening years have traditionally been seen as a period of crisis. The 260s saw the nadir of Imperial fortunes, with every frontier threatened or overrun, the senior emperor imprisoned by the Persians, and Gaul and Palmyra breaking away from central control. It might have been thought that the empire should have collapsed - yet it did not.
Pat Southern shows how this was possible by providing a chronological history of the Empire from the end of the second century to the beginning of the fourth; the emergence and devastating activities of the Germanic tribes and the Persian Empire are analysed, and a conclusion details the economic, military and social aspects of the third century 'crisis'.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pat Southern studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the Universities of London and Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of numerous books on Roman history, including The Roman Cavalry (with Karen Dixon, Routledge 1997), The Late Roman Army (with Karen Dixon, Routledge 2000), Domitian – Tragic Tyrant (Routledge 1997) and Augustus (Routledge 1998, second edition 2014).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415239435
• ISBN 13: 9780415239431
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416