Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (Roman Imperial Biographies)
Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the interlocking solutions he evolved to meet...
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Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the interlocking solutions he evolved to meet them, and the longer term results. It is both a portrait of one of Rome's greatest and most original rulers, and a political study in the emergence of Absolutism. Also includes four maps.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415918275 (0415918278)
Publish date: December 10th 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Edition language: English
I read Steven Williams' Diocletian and the Roman Recovery in conjunction with Alaric Watson's biography of Aurelian (my review here). Like that book, Diocletian doesn't aim to revise the "standard version" of the emperor's reign so much as pull together the scholarship (as of 1985) about the period ...
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