the Dynasty of the Severi; the Dissolution and
Restoration of the Empire.
CHAPTER XIX
THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE PRINCIPATE 264
The Victory of Autocracy; the Growth of the Civil Service; the
Army and the Defence of the Frontiers; the Provinces under the
Principate; Municipal Life; the Colonate or Serfdom.
CHAPTER XX
RELIGION AND SOCIETY 293
Society under the Principate; the Intellectual World; the
Imperial Cult and the Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism;
Christianity and the Roman State.
PART IV
THE AUTOCRACY OR LATE EMPIRE: 285-565 A. D.
CHAPTER XXI
FROM DIOCLETIAN TO THEODOSIUS THE GREAT: THE INTEGRITY OF THE 317
EMPIRE MAINTAINED: 285-395 A. D.
Diocletian; Constantine I, the Great; the Dynasty of
Constantine; the House of Valentinian and Theodosius the Great.
CHAPTER XXII
THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF THE LATE EMPIRE 333
The Autocrat and his Court; the Military Organization; the
Perfection of the Bureaucracy; the Nobility and the Senate; the
System of Taxation and the Ruin of the Municipalities.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE GERMANIC OCCUPATION OF ITALY AND THE WESTERN PROVINCES: 351
395-493 A. D.
General Characteristics of the Period; the Visigothic
Migrations; the Vandals; the Burgundians, Franks and Saxons;
the Fall of the Empire in the West; the Survival of the Empire
in the East.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN: 518-565 A. D. 369
The Germanic Kingdoms in the West to 533 A. D.; the Restoration
of the Imperial Power in the West; Justinian's Frontier
Problems and Internal Administration.
CHAPTER XXV
RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE LATE EMPIRE 385
The End of Paganism; the Church in the Christian Empire;
Sectarian Strife; Monasticism; Literature and Art.
EPILOGUE 403
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 405
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 415
INDEX 423

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The Roman Empire in the Second Century A. D. _Frontispiece_