Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire

by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr.

Book Overview

Professor Kaegi studies the response of the eastern half of the Roman Empire to the disintegration of western Rome, usually dated from the sack of the city of Rome in A.D. 410. Using sources from the fifth and sixth centuries, he shows that the eastern empire had a clear awareness of, interest in, and definite opinions on the disasters that befell Rome in the west. Religious arguments, both Pagan and Christian, tended to dominate the thinking of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691035105
• ISBN13: 9780691035109
• Release Date: June 1968
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.