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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.

Rome - History - Valentinian I, 364-375. --- Valens,-- Emperor of the East,-- approximately 328-378. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Greece --- History & Archaeology --- Valens, --- Valentinian --- Flavius Valentinianus --- Valentinianus --- Valentiniano --- Flavio Valente, --- Valente, --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome --- History --- Histoire --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- antioch. --- archaeology. --- arian crisis. --- armenia. --- balkans. --- barbarian history. --- battle of adrianople. --- battle. --- biography. --- bureaucracy. --- byzantine. --- christianity. --- constantin. --- discipline. --- emperor. --- empire. --- fall of an empire. --- frontier. --- gothic war. --- goths. --- government. --- history. --- iberia. --- imperialism. --- invasion. --- isaurian. --- late roman. --- military. --- pagans. --- pannonian emperors. --- persia. --- politics. --- procopius. --- rebellion. --- reign. --- religion. --- religious persecution. --- resistance. --- roman administration. --- roman empire. --- rome. --- saracens. --- territory. --- uprising. --- valens. --- valentinian. --- war.

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This Companion offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and originality that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.

Church history --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Constantine --- Rome --- History --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Constantijn, --- Constantin, --- Constantin --- Constantine, --- Constantino --- Constantinus Flavius Valerius Aurelius, --- Constantinus --- Constantinus, --- Costantino --- Costantino, --- Flaviĭ Valeriĭ Avreliĭ Konstantin, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, --- Flavius Valerius Constantinus, --- Konstantin, --- Konstantin --- Kōnstantinos, --- Kōnstantinos --- Konstantyn, --- Kostandianos --- Κωνσταντίνος, --- Флавий Валерий Аврелий Константин, --- Константин --- Константин, --- Flavije Valerije Konstantin --- Constantin I (empereur romain ; 0306-0337) --- Christianisme --- 306-337 (Constantin I le Grand) --- 30-600 (Église primitive)

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The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.

Slavery --- History --- Social aspects --- Slavery - History --- Slavery - Social aspects --- History.