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Contents Preface 0 Abbreviations 0 Ancient Sources: Texts, Editions, and Translations 0 I. Roman and Greek: State and Subject 1. Introduction: Roman and Greek 1 2. Imperial Legislation 00 3. Theodosius's Greek Empire 00 4. Latin and Greek 00 5. The Greek City, and Greek Literary Culture 00 6. Letters and the Rhetoric of Persuasion 00 II. Security and Insecurity 1. Introduction 00 2. The Military Structure 00 3. Constantinople and the West 00 4. Border Wars in Libya and Egypt 00 5. The Eastern Frontier: Sasanids and Saracens 00 6. The Danube Frontier and the Huns 00 III. Integration and Diversity 1. Latin in Government 000 2. Greek as the Lingua Franca 000 3. Greek and Other Languages at the Church Councils 000 4. The Public Role and Status of Syriac in the Fifth-Century Church 000 5. The Empire, the Church, and Paganism 000 6. Samaritans and Jews 000 IV. State and Church: Civil Administration, Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and Spiritual Power 1. Religious Conflicts and Spiritual Authority 000 2. State and Church: Regional Structures of Hierarchy and Authority 000 3. State and Church: Contested Borders 000 4. Theodosius and Heresy, 408/430 000 5. The Nestorian Controversy and the Two Councils of Ephesus, 431/450 000 V. State Power and Moral Defiance: Nestorius and Irenaeus 1. Introduction: Sources and Perspectives 000 2. Episcopal Persuasion and the Imperial Will 000 3. Nestorius: Return to Monastic Life, Condemnation and Exile, 431/436 000 4. Renewed Controversy, Imperial Condemnation, and Popular Reaction, 448/449 000 VI. Persuasion, Influence, and Power 000 1. Structures and Persons 000 2. The Routine of Public Persuasion: The Suggestio 000 3. Identifying Powerful Intermediaries 000 4. Approaching the Emperor 000 Appendix A. The Acta of the Fifth-Century Councils: A Brief Guide for Historians 000 Appendix B. Verbatim Reports of Proceedings from the Reign of Theodosius II 000 Illustrations 000 IA. The Theodosian Empire: Civil Government, Northern Half IB. The Theodosian Empire: Civil Government, Southern Half II. The Syriac Codex of 411, written in Edessa III. Autograph Greeting by Theodosius on a Letter to an Official IV. Church Built at Dar Qita, Syria, in 418 V. Statue of the Governor Oecumenius from Aphrodisias VI. Reconstruction of the Statue of the Governor Oecumenius with its Inscribed Base VII. The Structure of the Army of Theodosius's Empire VIII. Legionary Dispositions on the Danube Frontier IX. Legionary Dispositions on the Eastern Frontier X. Cities in the Balkan and Danubian Region whose Bishops attended one or more of the Fifth-Century Church Councils XI. The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in the Northern Part of the Secular Diocese of Oriens General Index 000 Index of Sources 000
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Theodosius II, 408-450.