Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Copyright information......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of maps......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
Timeline......Page 17
List of abbreviations......Page 21
1 The long-term evolution of Roman power......Page 24
2 The Romans against outsiders, 400 bc to ad 16......Page 38
Armed force and enduring control under the middle Republic: an outline......Page 39
Techniques of domination under the middle Republic, to 241 bc......Page 46
World power, 241–146 bc......Page 56
Questions and controversies......Page 60
Almost irresistible......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 89
Inside an aristocratic society......Page 91
The form and nature of the polity in the middle Republic......Page 97
Late-Republican discontents......Page 110
One-man rule and its effects on wider power-relationships......Page 121
Charismatic power, economic power......Page 128
Internal power, External power......Page 130
Expansion slows and ceases......Page 135
Desires and reasons......Page 148
Emperors and their rivals......Page 156
Military strength and weakness......Page 160
Knowledge and methods......Page 167
Conclusion......Page 172
Durability and docility: the historical problem......Page 174
Assimilation and identity......Page 181
The emperor......Page 189
Imperial questions......Page 195
Diocletian and Constantine......Page 211
High and mid-level officials......Page 215
Order and law......Page 219
Lower officials......Page 224
Social and gender power......Page 225
The power of ideas......Page 234
Internal power, external power......Page 240
The crucial decades......Page 242
Western woes......Page 243
An attempt at explanation......Page 249
Two centuries later......Page 263
The unsustainability of Justinian’s empire......Page 272
Conclusion......Page 284
Sixty crucial years of imperial power......Page 287
Bishops, priests, and the state......Page 300
Social disintegration......Page 304
Ideas......Page 312
From Justinian to Heraclius and beyond......Page 315
Internal rivals......Page 316
Internal power, external power......Page 323
8 Retrospect and some reflections......Page 326
References......Page 339
Index......Page 368