Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius
R. Malcolm Errington
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2007
Pages: 352
Subject: History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807877456
DESCRIPTION
The division of responsibilities between the emperors inevitably encouraged separate developments and allowed locally varying and often changing imperial attitudes toward different forms of religious belief. Errington demonstrates that the main stimulus for action in this period nearly always came from below the level of the imperial government, and not from an imperial initiative. Extending the theory of Fergus Millar into the later empire, Errington argues that the emperors were fundamentally reactive to regionally supplied information, as Millar has asserted was the case for the High Empire. Thus, despite significant structural changes, the empire remained broadly traditional in its operations.
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