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The Division of the Roman Empire, Late 3rd Century
2001By the late 3rd century, the Roman Empire was in its advanced stages of internal decline. The army, its numbers swelled with mercenaries hired to meet mounting German and Persian foreign threats, was all-powerful, making and unmaking emperors with bewildering rapidity and resulting in near-constant political anarchy.
Dennis P. Hupchick, Harold E. Cox
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The Mediterranean and the Dilemma of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Mediterranean Historical Review, 1986The present article is a preliminary study for a revision of the role that the Mediterranean played in the transition of western Europe from antiquity to the Middle Ages. It re‐examines the significance of the Mediterranean in maintaining the political and economic cohesion of the Roman empire up to the fifth century CE, and reviews the role of the ...
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Christograms as Signs of Authority in the Late Roman Empire
2018Abstract The first section tests the main interpretations of Lactantius’ passage on Constantine’s victorious sign in 312 against existing graphic evidence from the 310s and early 320s, and consequently supports the interpretation of Lactantius’ description as a rhetorical device invented or modified by the Christian narrator.
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A Conflict of Ideas in the Late Roman Empire
Phoenix, 1953C. D. Gordon +2 more
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Power laws in the Roman Empire: a survival analysis
Royal Society Open Science, 2021Luciano da Fontoura Costa +2 more
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