The Empire of the Tetrarchs
Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324
Revised Edition
ISBN13: 9780198153047ISBN10: 019815304X
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440 pages
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Winner of the 1999 Kupiszewski Prize
Description
The era of Diocletian and Constantine--when the Christian church passed from persecution to imperial favor--saw far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government in the Roman Empire for three hundred years. This was a complex period of cooperation and rivalry between co-emperors, the result of Diocletian's experiment in government by four rulers, the tetrarchs. Drawing together material from a wide variety of sources, Corcoran studies the vast range of documents issued by the emperors and their officials, and assesses how effectively the machinery of government matched imperial ambitions.Reviews
"For students of late antiquity with an interest in Roman law, there is much of value here."--Choice
About the Author(s)
Simon Corcoran, Research Fellow in the Department of History, University College London
