The Transformation of the Roman West

Preface and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction. The End of the West Roman Empire:
From Decline and Fall to Transformation
of the Roman World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1. Gibbon’s Secondary Causes:
“The Disorders of Military Despotism”
and “the Division of Monarchy” . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. Barbarism: “The Invasion and
Settlements of the Barbarians
of Germany and Scythia” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3. Religion and the Transformation
of the Roman World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4. Religion: “The Rise, Establishment,
and Sects of Christianity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 5. Religious Reaction to the Fall of Rome . . . . 43
Chapter 6. Doctrinal Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 7. The Impact of Christianity:
A Quantitative Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 8. Clerics, Soldiers, Bureaucrats . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 9. Ecclesiastical Endowment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 10. Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff . . . . . . . . 109
Appendix. Clerical Ordinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139