In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable
picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of
government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and
the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after
Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a
period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more
extensive and intrusive bureaucracy.
The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a
high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus.
His "On the Magistracies of the Roman State," the only memoir of
its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing
account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly
draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to
trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these
might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those
wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for
their own ends. "Ruling the Later Roman Empire" presents a
fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power
brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their
conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures.
This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both
rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system
of government.
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