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12 mai 2015
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.2819
- isbn: 9782728311279
- eisbn: 9782728311286
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Empire romain histoire politique réforme gouvernenmentale IVe-VIIe siècles choix de gouvernement Impero romano storia politica scelte di governo riforma governativa History Political Science HIS002020 HBLASujets proches
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J. Heather Peter, « East & West in the Fifth Century », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.2819
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Two propositions concerning East Roman attitudes towards the breakdown of centralised imperial rule in the western Mediterranean have become quite firmly entrenched in some recent scholarly literature. First, it is now regularly argued that the imperial authorities in Constantinople were content more or less to stand by and watch as the western Empire collapsed. There are many components to this line of thought, but it was postulated more than a generation ago now that the period after the de...