C. Giuffrida Manmana, Alla corte dell’imperatore. Autorità civili, militari ed ecclesiastiche nella Tarda Antichità, Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2008

Abstract

Review of the monograph by C. Giuffrida, who entrusts this study with a personal interpretation of some relevant aspects that characterised the late antique world. The volume is divided into four parts: the first on the creation of a new ruling class; the second on the strategy to strengthen imperial power; the third on Theodosius I and the difficult control of the West; the fourth on the new behavioural paradigms at the court of the Theodosians and in particular on the political role of the Augustae.