The Roman government of Britain / Anthony R. Birley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birley, Anthony, 1937-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romans--Great Britain--Politics and government.

Romans.

Great Britain--History--Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--To 1485.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Roman Government of Britain is a completely rewritten version of Professor Birley's Fasti of Roman Britain (1981), with biographical entries for all higher officials from AD 43 to 409. Several new governors, legionary legates, tribunes, procurators, and fleet prefects are included, and the entries for those previously known revised; and in this edition translations of all sources have been added. Introductory sections deal with career-structures in theprincipate and the changed system of the late empire. Evidence for imperial visits is also quoted and discussed. The work provides a full co

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Note on the Citation of Sources; I. High Officials of the Undivided Province, 43-c.213; I. 1. Introduction: the senatorial career in the principate; I. 2. Claudio-Neronian Governors, 43-69 (Gov. 1-7); I. 3. Flavian Governors, 69-96 (Gov. 8-12); I. 4. Governors from Nerva to Hadrian, 98-138 (Gov. 13-23); I. 5. Governors from Antoninus Pius to Commodus, 138-92 (Gov. 24-36); I. 6. Governors under Severus and Caracalla, 197-c.213 (Gov. 37-41); I. 7. Incerti (Gov. a-o); I. 8. Comites of the Emperors in Britain (Com. Aug. 1-17); I. 9. The Legions and their Bases

I. 10. Legionary Legates (LL 1-41, a-g)I. 11. Iuridici (Iurid. 1-7); I. 12. Tribuni laticlavii (Trib. 1-32, a-d); I. 13. The Procuratorial Career; I. 14. The Procurators (Proc. 1-14); I. 15. The Praefecti Classis (Praef. cl. 1-7); I. 16. Census-Officials and Junior Procurators (Jun. Proc. 1-8); II. From Caracalla to Carinus, c.213-285; II. 1. The First Division of Britain; II. 2. Governors and Legionary Legates in the Third Century; III. Carausius and Allectus, 286-296; III. 1 Marcus Aurelius Maus ( . . . ) Carausius, 286-293; III. 2 The Fall of Carausius and the Rule of Allectus

III. 3 The Recovery of Britain in 296IV. The Last Century of Roman Rule; IV. 1. The Second Division of Britain; IV. 2. The Problem of Valentia; IV. 3. Military Command and Civil Administration in Late Roman Britain; IV. 4. From the Tetrarchy to the Early Fifth Century: High Officials and Imperial Involvement; IV. 5. The End of Roman Rule; Appendix: British Client-Rulers; Select Bibliography; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Index; 1. Persons; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; X; Z; 2. Geographical; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; 3. Sources quoted in extenso; 4. Miscellaneous; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V

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ISBN:

1-4294-9277-5

0-19-153087-5

9786610904815

0-19-925237-8

1-280-90481-X

9786612199455

OCLC:

742333433