University of California Press, Date: 2007-08-01. Paperback. Good. 2007. University of California Press ISBN 0520253914 9780520253919 [US]

ISBN10: 0520247035, ISBN13: 9780520247031, [publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press] Hardcover XXVI, 279 p., maps, ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTH CENTURY, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there existed a stable and successful system, using Latin as its official language but communicating with its subjects in Greek. This book takes an inside look at how this system worked in the long reign of the pious Christian Emperor Theodosius II (408—450) and analyzes its largely successful defense of its frontiers, its internal coherence, and its relations with its subjects, with a flow of demands and suggestions traveling up the hierarchy to the Emperor and a long series of laws, often set out in elaborately self-justificatory detail, addressed by the Emperor, through his officials, to the people. Above all, this book focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the States involvement in intensely debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus in 431 and 449. Between the law codes and the acts of the Church Councils, the material illustrat ...
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