The First Two Years of the Emperor Theodosius I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10090381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold Ehrhardt (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 1964-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900061388 |
| OpenAlex | W2100271662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 1 |
There have been of late two important books dealing with Theodosius and the Christian Church—one by W. Ensslin and the other by N. Q. King. To a large extent these two authors are agreed that the emperor from the time when he was called by Gratian, the senior Augustus, after the catastrophic defeat of Valens at Hadrianople in 378, where the Roman army of the Balkans together with its emperor was annihilated, gave most of his time and mind to the re-establishment of the Catholic Church in the East. King (op. cit., 18) makes the point that upon a man like Theodosius, brought up as a devout Western Catholic, the enormous change of fortune which took him from voluntary exile to the imperial throne, must have left a profound religious impression: Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles
Ancient history · Emperor · Political science · Politics · Throne · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law
Art and architecture
Emperors, government and bureaucracy
Orthodoxy and heresy from the death of Constantine to the eve of the first council of Ephesus
Rural life in the later Roman empire
The army
Asceticism
Senators and senates
Education and literary culture
The successors of Constantine
Late Roman social relations
Polytheist religion and philosophy
The cities
The Second Ecumenical Council and the Second Rome
The Cambridge Ancient History
Gratian's repudiation of the Pontifical Robe
Wulfila, the Gothic Bible, and the Mission to the Goths
| Citations per year | 0.28 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1968 - 2025 (58) |
| Highly cited | No |