Late Roman Italy
Late Roman Italy This research volume reassesses one of the most fundamental transformations in Late Antiquity, centered on a pivotal region: the transition from 'Empire' to 'Kingdom' in Italy c.…
Specifikacia Late Roman Italy
Late Roman Italy
This research volume reassesses one of the most fundamental transformations in Late Antiquity, centered on a pivotal region: the transition from 'Empire' to 'Kingdom' in Italy c. 250-500. Yet during the second quarter of this millennium, Italy underwent dramatic evolutions from demotion to a provincialized region (c. During the first quarter of the first millennium, Italy was still the heart of the Roman Empire; the only political superstructure ever managing to encompass the entire Mediterranean world and its European hinterland.
395-476), to an autonomous regnum governed by non-Roman rulers as part of an Eastern Roman 'Commonwealth' (c. 285-395), to a new imperial hub kept afloat by cannibalizing other provinces' resources (c.