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| | xii | |
| Preface | | xiii | |
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| | 1 | (27) |
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| The background and accession of Septimius Severus |
| | 1 | (3) |
| | 4 | (5) |
| Severus, the army and the senate |
| | 9 | (6) |
| | 15 | (5) |
| | 20 | (8) |
| Maximinus to Diocletian and the `crisis' |
| | 28 | (39) |
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| | 28 | (1) |
| | 28 | (30) |
| | 58 | (9) |
| Diocletian and the first tetrarchy, A.D. 284--305 |
| | 67 | (23) |
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| The accession of Diocletian and the appointment of Maximian |
| | 68 | (2) |
| | 70 | (4) |
| The creation of the tetrarchy |
| | 74 | (4) |
| The period of the tetrarchy, 293--305 |
| | 78 | (10) |
| | 88 | (2) |
| The reign of Constantine, A.D. 306--337 |
| | 90 | (20) |
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| PART II GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION |
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| | 110 | (21) |
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| | 110 | (10) |
| The military reforms of Diocletian and Constantine |
| | 120 | (11) |
| The emperor and his administration |
| | 131 | (81) |
| | 131 | (6) |
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| | 137 | (19) |
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| Imperial designation and legitimation: the problem of succession |
| | 137 | (3) |
| The domus Augusta and the dynastic ideology |
| | 140 | (1) |
| The role of the army and the plebs urbana in imperial legitimation |
| | 141 | (1) |
| The administration: the centre and the periphery |
| | 142 | (5) |
| The praetorian prefecture and the jurists |
| | 147 | (1) |
| The development of the procuratorships |
| | 148 | (2) |
| The new organization of imperial estates and finances |
| | 150 | (6) |
| The government and administration of the empire in the central decades of the third century |
| | 156 | (14) |
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| Designation of the emperor and succession during the fifty years of the anarchy |
| | 156 | (2) |
| Gallienus' reforms: military command and the government of the provinces |
| | 158 | (4) |
| The city of Rome from the Severans to Aurelian |
| | 162 | (3) |
| Italy moving towards provincialization |
| | 165 | (5) |
| The new state of Diocletian and Constantine: from the tetrarchy to the reunification of the empire |
| | 170 | (14) |
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| The new legitimation of imperial power |
| | 170 | (2) |
| The reforms and the administrative organization of the empire |
| | 172 | (7) |
| Provinces, dioceses and prefectures |
| | 179 | (2) |
| | 181 | (3) |
| | 184 | (16) |
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| | 200 | (12) |
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| Rescripts, jurists and the chancellery |
| | 201 | (1) |
| | 202 | (2) |
| | 204 | (2) |
| | 206 | (1) |
| | 207 | (5) |
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| | 212 | (57) |
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| | 212 | (21) |
| | 233 | (19) |
| | 252 | (17) |
| Developments in provincial and local administration |
| | 269 | (44) |
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| | 269 | (2) |
| The imperial state and its `provincials' |
| | 271 | (11) |
| The cities in the service of the functioning of the imperial state |
| | 282 | (11) |
| The fate of the municipal world: crisis or adaptation? |
| | 293 | (16) |
| | 309 | (4) |
| Egypt from Septimius Severus to the death of Constantine |
| | 313 | (14) |
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| | 313 | (2) |
| Egypt in the context of the empire |
| | 315 | (1) |
| The province and its administration |
| | 316 | (6) |
| | 322 | (5) |
| PART IV THE ECONOMY OF THE EMPIRE |
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| Coinage and taxation: the state's point of view, A.D. 193--337 |
| | 327 | (66) |
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| Coin issues and devaluations |
| | 330 | (23) |
| | 353 | (7) |
| | 360 | (26) |
| The modes of public spending |
| | 386 | (4) |
| | 390 | (3) |
| Coinage, society and economy |
| | 393 | (47) |
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| The structures of the economy |
| | 397 | (28) |
| The state and the evolution of the economy in the `long' third century: problems of interpretation |
| | 425 | (10) |
| Did the economic unity of the empire become fragmented? |
| | 435 | (5) |
| PART V THE NON-ROMAN WORLD |
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| The Germanic peoples and Germanic society |
| | 440 | (21) |
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| | 440 | (7) |
| | 447 | (3) |
| | 450 | (3) |
| | 453 | (8) |
| | 461 | (20) |
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| | 461 | (3) |
| | 464 | (8) |
| Sassanian relations with the Romans |
| | 472 | (2) |
| | 474 | (5) |
| | 479 | (2) |
| Armenia and the eastern marches |
| | 481 | (17) |
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| | 481 | (2) |
| | 483 | (6) |
| | 489 | (2) |
| | 491 | (7) |
| The Arabs and the desert peoples |
| | 498 | (23) |
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| The unity and diversity of Arab society |
| | 498 | (9) |
| The apogee and ruin of the client states |
| | 507 | (8) |
| Phylarchs and allied nomad kings |
| | 515 | (6) |
| PART VI RELIGION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY |
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| | 521 | (151) |
| | 521 | (17) |
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| | 523 | (6) |
| | 529 | (4) |
| | 533 | (5) |
| The individual and the gods |
| | 538 | (15) |
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| | 538 | (5) |
| | 543 | (8) |
| | 551 | (2) |
| | 553 | (20) |
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| | 553 | (8) |
| | 561 | (9) |
| | 570 | (3) |
| Christianity, A.D. 70--192 |
| | 573 | (16) |
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| Third-century Christianity |
| | 589 | (83) |
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| | 589 | (27) |
| Christians and the Roman state |
| | 616 | (9) |
| | 625 | (10) |
| | 635 | (2) |
| Persecution under Valerian and Gallienus |
| | 637 | (10) |
| | 647 | (18) |
| Christian literature of the third century |
| | 665 | (7) |
| Art and architecture, A.D. 193--337 |
| | 672 | (32) |
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| | 672 | (1) |
| Art and architecture, A.D. 193--337: a survey |
| | 673 | (29) |
| | 702 | (2) |
| | 704 | (64) |
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| Changes in Roman provincial organization, A.D. 193--337 |
| | 705 | (9) |
| Imperial movements, A.D. 193--337 |
| | 714 | (10) |
| Frontier deployment, A.D. 193--337 |
| | 724 | (44) |
| | 768 | (4) |
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| | 772 | (14) |
| | 786 | (114) |
| | 786 | (7) |
| | 793 | (6) |
| Part I: Narrative (chapters 1--4) |
| | 799 | (20) |
| Part II: Government and administration (chapters 5--7) |
| | 819 | (15) |
| Part III: The provinces (chapters 8--10) |
| | 834 | (18) |
| Part IV: The economy of the empire (chapters 11--12) |
| | 852 | (19) |
| Part V: The non-Roman world (chapters 13--16) |
| | 871 | (14) |
| Part VI: Religion, culture and society (chapters 17--19) |
| | 885 | (15) |
| Index | | 900 | |
