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Barbarians and bishops: army, church, and state in the age of Arcadius and Chrysostom
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz
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Frontmatter
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List of Plates (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page xiii)
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Introduction: Demilitarization and Christianization (page 1)
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PART I: AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES AND ITS PROBLEMS
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1. Barbarian Officers and Generals (page 7)
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2. Reasons for the Recruiting of Barbarians (page 11)
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3. The Consequences of Adrianople: Rebuilding the Army (page 26)
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4. Regulars, Federates, and Bucellarii (page 32)
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5. The Visigoths and Alaric's Goths (page 48)
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PART II: THE EASTERN GOVERNMENT AND ITS ARMY
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6. The Murder of Rufinus (page 89)
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7. The Rulers of the East and their Military Policy (page 93)
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8. The Age of Eutropius (page 96)
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9. The Fall of Eutropius and the Prefecture of Aurelian (page 104)
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10. The Fall of Gainas (page 111)
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11. After Gainas (page 126)
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12. The Arcadian Establishment, AD 392-412 (page 132)
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13. Legislation against Heretics, Pagans, and Jews (page 146)
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PART III: CHRYSOSTOM AND THE POLITICIANS
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14. Orthodoxy Imposed at Constantinople (page 157)
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15. The Election and Preaching of John Chrysostom (page 166)
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16. Chrysostom in the Gainas Crisis (page 189)
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17. Enemies and Friends of John Chrysostom: The Problem (page 195)
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18. The Three Bishops and Eudoxia (page 198)
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19. Theophilus (page 203)
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20. Clerical Opposition in Constantinople and in Neighbouring Provinces (page 208)
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21. Enemies in the Establishment (page 217)
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22. The Rich, the Poor, and the West (page 223)
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23. Bishop and Public Life in the Cyrenaica of Synesius (page 228)
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Conclusion: The Historians' Post-Mortem (page 236)
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Appendix I: The Identity of Typhos in Synesius' De Providentia (page 253)
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Appendix II: Arcadius' Column (page 273)
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Bibliography (page 279)
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Index (page 305)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CH | 62.3 (Sep. 1993): 382-383 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3168780 |
JRS | 81 (1991): 233-234 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/300547 |
JMiH | 55.2 (Apr. 1991): 238-239 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1985901 |
AHR | 96.4 (Oct. 1991): 1180-1181 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2165058 |
CR | 41.2 (1991): 417-419 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/711431 |
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Published: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780198148869 (hardcover)
- 9780198140733 (paper)