The Theodosian age (A.D. 379-455)
Subtitle: power, place, belief and learning at the end of the Western Empire
By: edited by Rosa García-Gasco, Sergio González Sánchez, David Hernández de la Fuente
Series: BAR international series -- 2493; BAR international series -- 2493.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781407311074
Subjects: History
Description: "Papers presented at the conference on the age of the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius (Segovia 2009)"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Several papers in Spanish with English abstracts.
Table of contents: title: Prefacio / Rosa García-Gasco, Sergio González Sánchez and David Hernández de la Fuente; title: Section 1. History and archaeology. The power of Maternus Cynegius in the Theodosian court / María Victoria Escribano Paño; title: De las catacumbas a las catedrales: sobre la transformación del espacio sacro desde el inicio de la era cristiana hasta la época teodosiana / Pedro Barceló; title: The fate of temples in late-antique Rome / Chantal Bielmann; title: Sicilian cities between the fourth and fifth centuries AD / Denis Sami; title: The creation of Christian urban landscapes in Hispania: a rather late development / Pilar Diarte Blasco; title: Cristianización y violencia religiosa en la bética: tres casos de eliminación de escultura pagana y mitológica en torno a época teodosiana / Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco; title: El papel de Gala Placidia en la creación de un reino godo en Occidente / Rosa Sanz-Serrano; title: Theodosius II and the consolidation of the Visigothic power in the West / Fernando López Sánchez; title: Ammianus and Theodosius I concerning the Barbarica Conspiratio / David Álvarez-Jiménez; title: The foedus of 382 or how the Goths did not become integrated into the Roman Empire / Eike Faber; title: The missorium of Theodosius: imperial elites and the Lusitanian countryside in the Later Roman Empire / Saúl Martin González; title: Rural population of farmlands south of the Guadalquivir Valley in late antiquity (fourth-sixth centuries AD) / Enrique García VArgas and Jacobo Vázquez Paz; title: Safe in their homes? Reflections on defending towns and populations in northern Italy, AD 350-450 / Neil Christie; title: section 2. Philosophy and literature. El retrato de Teodosio I (Epit. 48), una encrucijada en la caracterización imperial de la Antigüedad tardía / Isabel Moreno-Ferrero; title: Themistius and the accession of Theodosius I, Oratio XIV / Aitor Blanco-Pérez; title: La cristianización del calendario oficial romano y la polîtica religiosa de Graciano, Valentiniano II y Teodosio I / Esteban Moreno Resano; title: The persecutores in the Late Antique Christian literature (4th-5th century AD): Christian historical retrospective of the period of persecution after the Edict of Thessalonica-AD 380 / JOrge Cuesta Fernández; title: From the cave to the desert: the Platonic myth of the cave and its Christian echoes / Javier Martínez; title: Reception of Proclus in Pletho and Ficino / Jesús de Garay; title: Diogenes Laertius between tradition and innovation: philosophers and [Theîoi ândres] / Sergi Grau; title: Rhetoric of novelty in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis / Laura Miguélez-Cavero; title: La teúrgia, de época teodosiana a Nono de Panópolis. Una visión panorámica / Rosa García-Gasco; title: La frontera entre la prosa y el verso en la sofística del Bajo Imperio: reconsiderando a Himerio / José Guillermo Montes Cala; title: Elio Aristides como modelo retórico desde la Antigüedad tardía al Renacimiento / David Hernández de la Fuente; title: Bibliography/Reference list.