A History of the Later Roman Empire
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Book I. Introduction:
1. Christianity and paganism
2. Influence of Christianity on society
3. Elements of disintegration in the Roman empire
4. The administration of the empire
5. Constantinople
Book II. The House of Theodosius:
1. Rufinus and Eutropius
2. The Germans in the East
3. John Chrysostom
4. Stilicho and Alaric
5. Theodosius II and Marcian
6. Beginnings of the dismemberment of the empire
7. Invasions of the Huns
8. The patrician Aetius
9. The church in the fifth century
10. Life and manners in the fifth century
11. A glimpse of Hun life
Book III. The House of Leo the Great:
1. Leo I
2. Ricimer the Patrician
3. Zeno
4. The Ostrogoths in Illyricum and Thrace
5. Odovacar the Patrician and Theodoric the Patrician
6. Anastasius I
7. The Persian war
8. Greek literature of the fifth century
Book IV, Part I. The House of Justin:
1. The reign of Justin I and the earlier years of Justinian's reign
2. Justinian and Theodora
3. The legal works of Justinian
4. First Persian war (528–532 AD)
5. The reconquest of Africa and Italy
6. The great plague
7. The final conquest of Italy and the conquest of south-eastern Spain
8 Second Persian war (540–545 AD)
9. The Lazic war (549–556 AD)
10 The later years of Justinian's reign. Volume 2: Book IV, Part I continued. The House of Justin:
11. Justinian's Caesaropapism
12. The slaves
13. Changes in the provincial administration
14. The geography of Europe at the end of Justinian's reign
15. Byzantine art
16. Notes on the manners, industries, and commerce in the age of Justinian
Book IV, Part 2. The Collapse of Justinian's System:
1. Justin II and Tiberius II
2. Maurice
3. The Persian war (572–591 AD)
4. Slaves and Avars in Illyricum and Thrace
5. The Lombards in Italy
6. The empire and the Franks
7. The language of the Romaioi in the sixth century
8. Literature of the sixth century
Book V. The House of Heraclius:
1. Phocas
2. Heraclius (610–622 AD)
3. The Persian war
4. Monotheletism
5. Literature in the reign of Heraclius
6. Dismemberment of the empire by the Saracens
7. The Slavonic settlements in Illyricum and Thrace
8. Constans II
9. Constantine IV
10. Justinian II
11. Foundation of the Bulgarian kingdom
12. Origin of the system of themes
13. Twenty years of anarchy
14. Social and religious decay in the seventh century
Book VI. The House of Leo the Isaurian:
1. The repulse of the Saracens
2. The administration of Leo III
3. The iconoclastic movement
4. Imperial Italy in the eighth century
5. Constantine V
6. Iconoclastic policy of Constantine
7. Bulgaria
8. Leo IV
9. Constantine VI and Irene
10. The reaction against iconoclasm
11. The popes, the Lombards, and the Franks
12. The geographical aspect of Europe at the end of the eighth century
13. Society in the eighth century
14. Conclusion
Index.