The Roman Empire: Essays on the Constitutional History from the Accession of Domitian (81 A. D.) to the Retirement of Nicephorus III (1081 A.D.).

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Longmans, Green, 1910 - 923 pagina's

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Pagina i - THE ROMAN EMPIRE : Essays on the Constitutional History from the Accession of Domitian (81 AD) to the retirement of Nicephorus III. (1081 AD).
Pagina 297 - ... of their emperor. Perhaps no man then living perceived that this event was destined to change the whole system of government, destroy the fabric of the central administration, deliver up the provinces of Asia an easy conquest to the Seljouk Turks, and the capital a prey to a band of crusaders.
Pagina 6 - Both the material and intellectual progress of society had been deliberately opposed by the imperial legislation. A spirit of conservatism persuaded the legislators of the Roman empire that its power could not decline, if each order and profession of its citizens was fixed irrevocably in the sphere of their own peculiar duties by hereditary succession.
Pagina 486 - AD 476,' which is the third year of Zeno. Numismatists place the commencement of the Byzantine empire in the reign of Anastasius I. Saulcy, Essai de Classification des Suites Monctaires Byzantines. Gibbon tells us, 'Tiberius by the Arabs, and Maurice by the Italians, are distinguished as the first of the Greek Caesars, as the founders of a new dynasty and empire. The silent revolution was accomplished before the death of Heraclius.

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