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The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government Ad 284-324 Hard cover - 1996
by Simon Corcoran
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- Title The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government Ad 284-324
- Author Simon Corcoran
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 420
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarendon Press, 1996. 420p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs.
- Date 1996-08-29
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780198149842_pod
- ISBN 9780198149842 / 0198149840
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 8.74 x 5.7 x 1.11 in (22.20 x 14.48 x 2.82 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Rome - History - Diocletian, 284-305, Rome - History - Constantine I, the Great,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95040305
- Dewey Decimal Code 945.01
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From the rear cover
The era of Diocletian and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years, and the time when the Christian Church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period of co-operation and rivalry between a number of co-emperors, the result of Diocletian's experiment of government by four rulers (the tetrarchs). This book examines imperial government at this crucial but often neglected period of transition, through a wide study of the pronouncements that the emperors and their officials produced, drawing together material from a wide variety of sources: the law codes, Christian authors, inscriptions, and papyri. The study covers the format, composition, and promulgation of documents, and includes chronological catalogues of imperial letters and edicts, as well as extended discussions of the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes, and the ambitious Prices Edict. Much of this has had little detailed coverage in English before. There is also a chapter that elucidates the relative powers of the members of the imperial college. Finally, Dr Corcoran assesses how effectively the machinery of government really matched the ambitions of the emperors.