428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire [Course Book ed.] 9781400832866

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Travels of Flavius Dionysius and the End of Armenia
II. The World of Nestorius: Bishops, Monks, and Saracens
III. On the Pilgrim’s Road
IV. The New Rome and Its Prince
V. The Anatomy of an Empire
VI. From Ravenna to Nola: Italy in Transition
VII. Trial Runs for the Middle Ages
VIII. Waiting for the Vandals
IX. Pagans and Christians on the Nile
X. Easter in Jerusalem
XI. The Great King and the Seven Princesses
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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Giusto Traina Translated by Allan Cameron

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English translation copyright © 2009 by Princeton University Press Italian edition copyright © 2007 by Gius. Laterza & Figli This translation of 428 dopo Cristo. Storia di un anno is published by arrangement with Gius. Laterza & Figli SpA, Roma-Bari. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Fourth printing, and first paperback printing, 2011 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-691-15025-3 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows Traina, Giusto, 1959[428 dopo Cristo. English] 428 AD : an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire / Giusto Traina ; translated by Allan Cameron. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-13669-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Rome—History—Empire, 284-476. 2. Europe—History—To 476. 3. History, Ancient. I. Cameron, Allan. II. Title. III. Title: 428 A.D. DG338.T7313 2009 9379.09—dc22 2008053724 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Adobe Caslon Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 5 7 9 10 8 6 4

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