John F Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3788927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS J F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Proba, Faltonia Betitia
Faltonia Betitia Proba (fl. late 4th century) was a Roman poet, writer of a Christian cento (Lat. for patchwork), which circulated in the Eastern and Western Empire toward the end of the 4th century. The work consists of 694 verses culled from Virgil’s Eclogues , Georgics , and Aeneid , narrating episodes from Genesis, Exodus, and the four Gospels. The narrative sections are interspersed with proems, interludes, and epilogues pervaded by a confes…
Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code
The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, illuminating issues as wide-ranging as prison conditions and rural patronage, intestate succession, and the pork supply for the city o…
The Governing Classes: (2) Valentinian I and the Imperial Court
In 369 Symmachus visited the court at Trier, as a member of the delegation which conveyed to the Emperor Valentinian the congratulations of the senate upon the achievement of his quinquennalia, and presented the aurumoblaticium, the ‘voluntary tax’ offered by the senate to commemorate the occasion.1 From the period of Symmachus’ stay ‘in the tents’, which kept him in the north for about a year, survive fragments of three panegyrics celebrating th…
‘Ordo Renascendi’: (2) Italy
In returning to his native province at a critical moment of its history, Rutilius Namatianus was about to offer his contribution to the preservation of Roman life in a region battered by invasion, where the political experience of the upper classes had suffered the profound effects of disruption and uncertainty. For Italy also, which had suffered much less than Gaul, his journey offers an approach to the same central question of the continuity of…
‘Ordo Renascendi’: (1) Gaul
From 418 a Roman government now permanently situated at Arles was confronted by a Visigothic kingdom in Aquitania, bound to it by the terms of its settlement there to provide military assistance to the Romans, but at the same time a constant source of uncertainty. For a time, the alliance was preserved by common apprehension of the more unruly barbarian peoples in the lands over the Pyrenees, who were engaged in carving out their territories, dis…
Theodosius and the West
Before the invasion of Maximus, Valentinian’s government dispersed immediately. The emperor had already left Milan for Aquileia, where he was better placed to seek safety in the east; 1 and he now went with his mother and a group of courtiers, who included the elder statesman Petronius Probus, to meet Theodosius at Thessalonica and discuss his restoration. Maximus, meanwhile, set up court at Milan, and appointed to the prefecture of Rome a corres…
Gaul and Spain (406−418)
In the two years since their crossing of the Rhine in the winter of 406/7, the invading barbarian tribes of the Suebi, Vandals, and Alani had advanced unimpeded across Gaul towards the Pyrenees. Behind them, they left the Gallic countryside, in the words of one contemporary, ‘smoking like one huge funeral pyre’. If the expression is perhaps something of an exaggeration, it is forgivable in the circumstances; and it is not out of keeping with the …
The Accession of Theodosius
The defeat of the eastern emperor Valens and the destruction of his army in the great battle against the Visigoths fought on g August 378 near Hadrianopolis in Thrace, was one of the decisive moments of late Roman history. The threat of the Goths as a hostile force on the Danube frontier was not new. In recent years, they had been persistently troublesome, although the pressure had for a time been eased when they were defeated by Valens, in his e…
Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code
The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, illuminating issues as wide-ranging as prison conditions and rural patronage, intestate succession, and the pork supply for the city o…
The Governing Classes: (2) Valentinian I and the Imperial Court
In 369 Symmachus visited the court at Trier, as a member of the delegation which conveyed to the Emperor Valentinian the congratulations of the senate upon the achievement of his quinquennalia, and presented the aurumoblaticium, the ‘voluntary tax’ offered by the senate to commemorate the occasion.1 From the period of Symmachus’ stay ‘in the tents’, which kept him in the north for about a year, survive fragments of three panegyrics celebrating th…
‘Ordo Renascendi’: (2) Italy
In returning to his native province at a critical moment of its history, Rutilius Namatianus was about to offer his contribution to the preservation of Roman life in a region battered by invasion, where the political experience of the upper classes had suffered the profound effects of disruption and uncertainty. For Italy also, which had suffered much less than Gaul, his journey offers an approach to the same central question of the continuity of…
‘Ordo Renascendi’: (1) Gaul
From 418 a Roman government now permanently situated at Arles was confronted by a Visigothic kingdom in Aquitania, bound to it by the terms of its settlement there to provide military assistance to the Romans, but at the same time a constant source of uncertainty. For a time, the alliance was preserved by common apprehension of the more unruly barbarian peoples in the lands over the Pyrenees, who were engaged in carving out their territories, dis…
Theodosius and the West
Before the invasion of Maximus, Valentinian’s government dispersed immediately. The emperor had already left Milan for Aquileia, where he was better placed to seek safety in the east; 1 and he now went with his mother and a group of courtiers, who included the elder statesman Petronius Probus, to meet Theodosius at Thessalonica and discuss his restoration. Maximus, meanwhile, set up court at Milan, and appointed to the prefecture of Rome a corres…
Gaul and Spain (406−418)
In the two years since their crossing of the Rhine in the winter of 406/7, the invading barbarian tribes of the Suebi, Vandals, and Alani had advanced unimpeded across Gaul towards the Pyrenees. Behind them, they left the Gallic countryside, in the words of one contemporary, ‘smoking like one huge funeral pyre’. If the expression is perhaps something of an exaggeration, it is forgivable in the circumstances; and it is not out of keeping with the …
The Accession of Theodosius
The defeat of the eastern emperor Valens and the destruction of his army in the great battle against the Visigoths fought on g August 378 near Hadrianopolis in Thrace, was one of the decisive moments of late Roman history. The threat of the Goths as a hostile force on the Danube frontier was not new. In recent years, they had been persistently troublesome, although the pressure had for a time been eased when they were defeated by Valens, in his e…
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code
The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, illuminating issues as wide-ranging as prison conditions and rural patronage, intestate succession, and the pork supply for the city o…
Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
Proba, Faltonia Betitia
Faltonia Betitia Proba (fl. late 4th century) was a Roman poet, writer of a Christian cento (Lat. for patchwork), which circulated in the Eastern and Western Empire toward the end of the 4th century. The work consists of 694 verses culled from Virgil’s Eclogues , Georgics , and Aeneid , narrating episodes from Genesis, Exodus, and the four Gospels. The narrative sections are interspersed with proems, interludes, and epilogues pervaded by a confes…
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