A HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE
FROM ARCADIUS TO IRENE
(395 TO 800 AD)
BY
J. B. BURY
PREFACE
BOOK ONE
INTRODUCTION
I.-
CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM
II.-
INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON SOCIETY
III.-
ELEMENTS OF DISINTEGRATION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
IV.-
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE EMPIRE
V.-
CONSTANTINOPLE
BOOK II
THE HOUSE OF THEODOSIUS
I.-RUFINUS AND EUTROPIUS
II.-
THE GERMANS IN THE EAST
III.-
JOHN CHRISOSTOM
IV.- STILICHO AND ALARIC
V.-THEODOSIUS AND MARCIAN
VI.-
BEGINNINGS OF THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE EMPIRE
VII.-
INVASIONS OF THE HUNS
VIII.-
THE PATRICIAN AETIUS
IX.-
THE CHURCH IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
X.-
LIFE AND MANNERS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
XI.-
A GLIMPSE OF HUN LIFE
BOOK III
THE HOUSE OF LEO THE GREAT
I.-
LEO I
II.-
RICIMER THE PATRICIAN
III.-
ZENO
IV.-
THE OSTROGOTHS IN ILLIRICUM AND THRACE
V.- ODOVACAR THE PATRICIAN AND THEODORIC THE PATRICIAN
Saint Severinus.
VI.-ANASTASIUS I
VII.- THE PERSIAN WAR
VIII.-
GREEK LITERATURE OF THE FIFTH CENTURY
BOOK IV
THE HOUSE OF JUSTIN
PART I
THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN
I.- THE REIGN OF JUSTIN
II.-
JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA
III.-
THE LEGAL WORKS OF JUSTINIAN
IV.-
FIRST PERSIAN WAR (528-532 AD)
V.-
THE RECONQUEST OF AFRICA AND ITALY
VI.-
THE GREAT PLAGUE
VII.-THE FINAL CONQUEST OF ITALY AND THE CONQUEST OF SOUTH EASTERN SPAIN
VIII.-
SECOND PERSIAN WAR (540-545 AD)
IX.-
THE LAZIC WAR (549-556 AD)
X.-
THE LATER YEARS OF JUSTINIAN'S REIGN
XI.- JUSTINIAN’S CAESAROPAPISM
XII.- THE SLAVES
XIII.- CHANGES IN THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION
XIV.- THE GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE AND THE END OF JUSTINIAN’S
REIGN
XV.- BYZANTINE ART
XVI.-NOTES ON THE MANNERS, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE IN
THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN
PART II
THE COLLAPSE OF JUSTINIAN’S SYSTEM
I.-
JUSTIN II AND TIBERIUS II
II.-
MAURICE
III.-
THE PERSIAN WAR
(572-591 AD)
IV.- SLAVS AND AVARS IN ILLYRICUM AND THRACE
V.- THE LOMBARDS IN ITALY
VI.-
THE EMPIRE AND THE FRANKS
VII.- THE LANGUAGE OF THE ROMAIOI IN THE SIXTH CENTURY
VIII.- LITERATURE OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
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