Diocletian and the Roman Recovery

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

Author: Stephen Williams

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0415918278

Category: History

Page: 264

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Dictionary of World Biography

Brauer, George C. The Age of the Soldier Emperors: Imperial Rome, A.D, 244–284. Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1975. A clear discussion of the Illyrian emperors of the third century, culminating in the reign of Diocletian.

Author: Frank Northen Magill

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781579580407

Category: Reference

Page: 1000

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Containing 250 entries, each volume of theDictionary of World Biographycontains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
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Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

77; Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (New York–London: Routledge, 1985), 102–14; Roger Rees, Diocletian ... Bill Leadbetter, Galerius and the Will of Diocletian, Roman Imperial Biographies (London–New York: Routledge, ...

Author: Wendy Mayer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 9783110291940

Category: Religion

Page: 268

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Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement’s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, the essays document inter- and intra-religious conflict from a variety of angles. Topics relevant to the early centuries range from religious conflict between different parts of the Christian canon, types of conflict, the origins of conflict, strategies for winning, for conflict resolution, and the emergence of a language of conflict. For the fourth to seventh centuries case studies from Asia Minor, Syria, Constantinople, Gaul, Arabia and Egypt are presented. The volume closes with examinations of the Christian and Jewish response to Islam, and of Islam’s response to Christianity. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Imperial Triumph

An exception in English is Lukas de Blois, The Policy of the Emperor Gallienus (Leiden, 1976), but good recent studies ... A readable if very traditional biography is Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (New York, 1985).

Author: Michael Kulikowski

Publisher: Profile Books

ISBN: 9781847654373

Category: History

Page: 328

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Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it. Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - and the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires. This sweeping account of one of the world's greatest empires at its magnificent peak is incisive, authoritative and utterly gripping.
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The Ancient World

Brauer, George C. The Age of the Soldier Emperors: Imperial Rome, A.D, 244–284. Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1975. A clear discussion of the Illyrian emperors of the third century, culminating in the reign of Diocletian.

Author: Frank N. Magill

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135457396

Category: Reference

Page: 1000

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Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
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Vespasian

Roman Imperial Biographies Forthcoming: Honorius: The Fight for the Roman West 395–423 AD, ... Julian Bennett Hadrian, Antony R. Birley Diocletian and the Roman Recovery, Stephen Williams Agrippina, Anthony A. Barrett The Age of ...

Author: Barbara Levick

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317481331

Category: History

Page: 346

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From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor restored peace and confidence to Rome and ensured a smooth succession, how he coped with the military, political and economic problems of his reign, and his evaluation of the solutions to these problems, before she finally examines his posthumous reputation. Now updated to take account of the past 15 years of scholarship, and with a new chapter on literature under the Flavians, Vespasian is a fascinating study for students of Roman history and the general classical enthusiast alike.
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Rome

Good imperial biographies for this period include A.R. Birley's Septimius Severus: the African emperor (1999, London, Routledge), S. Williams's Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (2000, London, Routledge), A.H.M. Jones's Constantine and ...

Author: Neil Faulkner

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317905240

Category: History

Page: 378

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The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people – slaves, serfs and poor peasants – were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.
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Constantine and the Christian Empire

35–37; and Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (New York, 1997), pp. 24–38. 6 The mid-fifth-century Church ... For excellent studies on individual emperors in this period, see the Routledge “Roman Imperial Biographies.

Author: Charles Odahl

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134686322

Category: History

Page: 424

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Drawing on over a quarter of a century of the author's research and experience, this book, illustrated with ninety-two photographs and eight maps, is the standard work on the man and his life for scholars, students, and all those interested in Roman imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine imperial history.
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The Triumph of Empire

Hendrik W. Dey, The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, ad 271–855 (Cambridge, 2011) is usefully ... A readable if very traditional biography is Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (New York, 1985).

Author: Michael Kulikowski

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674659612

Category: History

Page: 360

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Michael Kulikowski takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome, beginning with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable frontiers, to the decades after Constantine the Great, who overhauled the government, introduced a new state religion, and founded a second Rome.
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Claudius

ROMAN IMPERIAL BIOGRAPHIES Forthcoming in 2015: Caligula, Second edition, Anthony A. Barrett Vespasian, Second edition, ... Julian Bennett Hadrian, Anthony R. Birley Diocletian and the Roman Recovery, Stephen Williams Agrippina, ...

Author: Barbara Levick

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317529088

Category: History

Page: 286

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Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to ruling. Barbara Levick's authoritative study reassesses the reign of Claudius, examining his political objectives and activities within the constitutional, political, social and economic development of Rome. Out of Levick's critical scrutiny of the literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources emerges a different Claudius - an intelligent politician, ruthlessly determined to secure his position as ruler. Now updated to take account of recent scholarship, Claudius remains essential reading for students and historians of the early Roman Empire.
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