The eternal decline and fall of Rome : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Edward J., 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Historiography.

Rome.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.

Contents:

cover

Half Title

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Map of the Roman Empire at Its Greatest Extent in the Second Century AD

Introduction: A Snapshot and a Story

1. Decline in the Roman Republic

2. The Republic of Violence and the Empire of Peace

3. Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan

4. Renewal without Decline: The Antonines and Severans

5. Decline and False Renewal: The Third-​Century Crisis

6. Decline, Renewal, and the Invention of Christian Progress

7. Roman Renewal versus Christian Progress

8. When Renewal Fails to Arrive

9. The Loss of the Roman West and the Christian Future

10. Justinian, Roman Progress, and the Death of the Western Roman Empire

11. Rome, the Arabs, and Iconoclasm

12. Old Rome, New Rome, and Future Rome

13. The Retrenchment of One Roman Empire, the Resurgence of Another

14. The Captures of Constantinople

15. The Fall of Roman Constantinople and the End of Roman Renewal

16. Roman Renewal after the Fall

17. A Dangerous Idea

Conclusion: Roman Decline and Fall in Contemporary America

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-007673-9

0-19-007674-7

OCLC:

1240828575