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i. The Western and Eastern Empires
AD
395

2.
The Barbarian Invasions of the Fifth Century
AD

3. Europe after the Fall of the Western Empire
AD
476

4. Italy

9- North Africa and Spain
Index

Actium 115 Adam 128, 153,191ft. 'adoptive' succession 2, 9 Adrianople,
see
Hadrianopolis Adriatic Sea 102, 115, 120 Aetius 15ft., 191., 39, 66, 101,137 Africa, North 1, 7, 13, 15ft., 20, 22, 32, 36, 43, 53, 65, 7if., 91, 93, 95, 1141., 1171., i2if., 133, 139, 149, i6of., 163, 183, 190, 201 f.

agriculture, grain, wine 2, 15, 40,

57-61, 711., 771., 82, 126, 204 Alamanni 3, 6, 36, 133, 179 Alans 11, 133

Alaric 1 7, 10-14,
20
> 36/ 59/102, 109, 117-20, 127, 138, 157, 161, 1791., 188-91

Aleppo,
see
Beroea

Alexandria 148, 1501.

Algeria,
see
Africa, North

Alps 11, 65

Alsium (Palo) 72

Ambiani (Samarobriva, Amiens) 6

Ambrose, St. 39, 44, 58, 72,100, 132, 152, 154, i56f., i59f., 164, 168, i88f.

Amida (Diyarbakir) 51

Amiens,
see
Ambiani

Ammianus Marcellinus 6, 17, 33, 39/ 42- 53/ 59/ 65/ 67f., 73, 76, 78/ 83, 95, 97f., ioi, 131, 158, 163, 179, 181

Angles 17, 126 Annaba,
see
Hippo Regius Anthemius 21, i22f. Antioch 42, 169

Antonius, Marcus (Mark Antony) n
5
f.

Antony, St. 146, 148ft. Antwerp 134 Aquileia 8, 149 Aquincum 2

Aquitania,
see
Novempopulana

Arbogast 9, 124

Arcadius 9f., 102, 116, 119, 160

Arelate3, 13^, 73, 186

Aremorica (Brittany) 46,65

Argentorate (Strasbourg) 4

Arius, Arians 137ft., 164, 20of.

Aries,
see
Arelate

art, architecture 5, 72, io2f.; see

also mosaics Arverna (Clermont-Ferrand) 21,

46, 65, 75, 130,177 Arverni (Auvergne) 21, 46 Asia Minor 7, 113, 151,198 Ataulf 14, 120, 127, i29f. Athanasius, St. 148 Atlantic Ocean 1, 19 Attalus, Priscus,
see
Priscus

Attalus

Attila i8f., 22, 43, 81, 98,121, 157/ 179

Augusta Treverorum,
see
Treveri Augustine, St. 33, 43, 71, 128,

138,149, 1521., 161, 164-7,
1
7
0
'

176, 180,187-96,199 Augustonemetum,
see
Arverna Augustus 2, 28, 115, 181 Aurelius, Marcus 2, 113, i45f. Ausci (Auch),
see
Orientius Ausonius 70, 76, 147, 159,178 Auvergne,
see
Arverni Avela (Avila) 167 Avianius Symmachus,
see

Symmachus Avitus 73, 122, 130

Babylon 182, 191 Bacaudae, Bagaudae 65ft. Bactria 182 Baltic Sea 18 bandits,
see
brigands Barcino (Barcelona) 14 Basentus (Busento), R. 13 Basil of Caesarea, St., 186 Basilia (Basel) 6 Basiliscus 204 Belgrade,
see
Singidunum Benedict, St. 150 Beroea 169 Bethlehem 149, 189 Bithynia 199 Black Forest 6 Black Sea 114, 150 Blaesilla 153 Boak, A.E.R. 58 Bone,
see
Hippo Regius Boniface i5f.

Borbetomagus (Worms) 13 Bordeaux,
see
Burdigala Bosphorus, Thracian 3, 203 brigands, guerillas 41, 45, 65ft., 76/ 194

Brigantinus (Constance), Lake 8,

Britain xii, 1, iof., 17, 33, 46, 72,

93, 126, 191 Brittany,
see
Aremorica Brutus 181

Budapest,
see
Aquincum

Burdigala (Bordeaux) 14, 59, 147,

167, 177 bureaucracy, civil service,

officialdom 38, 56f., 67, 85, 89-

92, 97f., 169, 204 Burgundians 3, 6, 11, 13, 17,

i25ff., 129, 134 Burgus of Leontius 72 Bury, J.B. 64, I55f., 181 Butheric 138

Byzantine empire, Byzantium,
see
Constantinople

cabinet, imperial,
see
Consistory

Caecilian 201

Caesar, Julius 2, 181

Caesarea (Cappadocia),
see
Basil

Calchedon 199

Caledonia (Scotland) 6,193

Callinicum, Nicephorium,
see

Nicephorium Camilli 104 Campus Martius 20 Cappadocia 198 Capraria (Capraia) 151 Cartagena,
see
Carthago Nova Cartennae (Tenes),
see
Vincentius Carthage 1, 17, 72, 97, i76f., 201 Carthago Nova (Cartagena) 21 Cassian, John,
see
John Cassian Cassius, Dio,
see
Dio Cassius Castra Batava 46 Catalaunian Plains 19 Cato 181 Cauca (Coca) 8 Celts,
see
Britain, Gaul Censuales 176 Chalcedon,
see
Calchedon Channel, English 11 Chrestus 162

Christ, Christianity, clergy 1, 4, 8, 37L, 56, 58, 64ft., 70, 72, 78, 8if., 84f., 92, 100, 103, 107, i28f., 132, 137ft., 145-71/ 175/ 185-202

Cibalae (Vinkovci) 5

Cicero x8o

Circumcelliones
201

civil service,
see
bureaucracy

Claudian 33, 53, 70, 102, 104,

n6ff., 128, i32f., i78f., i8if. Cleopatra VII clergy,
see
Christianity Clermont-Ferrand,
see
Arverna clothing 73, i32f., 137 Coca,
see
Cauca codes, legal,
see
law Codex Euricianus,
see
Euric Codex Theodosianus,
see

Theodosius 11 coinage 54f., 105-10, 119L, 122,

179

Colosseum 60 Commodianus 195 Commodus 4 Consentia (Cosenza) 13 Consistory 93, 101 Constance, Lake,
see
Brigantinus Constantia,
see
Arelate,

Epiphanius Constantine 1 the Great 3L, 32,

36, 40, 42, 44, 54, 57, 70, 81,

113, 115, 124, 156, 158,162,

166, 177, 201 Constantine in nff. Constantinople (Byzantium,

Istanbul) 3, 7L, 10, i4f., 20, 22,

63, 71, 94, 103, 106, 113-123,

138, 176, 199, 203ft. Constantius 11 4, 101, 152, 158 Constantius m 13L, 103, 120,135 Corinth 152

corporations, commercial 82 corruption 92, 101 Cosenza,
see
Consentia councillors, town,
see
Curiales Creasy, Sir Edward 19 Curia,
see
Senate-house Curiales (town councillors) 63,

82-5, 95 Cynics 152 Cyprus 163

Cyrene (Shahhat),
see
Synesius Cyrrhus (Kurus),
see
Theodoret

Dacia Mediterranea 13 Dacia Ripensis 79 Dalmatia 2if., 120, 123, 158 Damasus, Pope 153, 156, 186, 199 Danube, R., Danubians 2f., 6ff., 10, 17, 19, 21, 34, 42, 46, 59, 65, 78L, 90, 93, 102, 122, 134,137, 203

Dardanelles, see Hellespont Defenders of the People

(Community) 63f., 77, 83 De
Rebus Bellicis, see On Matters of

Warfare
Dertona, see Tortona De
Vocatione Omnium Nationum,

see On the Calling of All Nations
Dill, Sir Samuel 96 Dio Cassius 79 dioceses 93f. Diocletian 3, 61, 113, 167 Diyarbakir,
see
Amida Domitian 4 Donatus, Donatists Downey, Glanville 204 dualists,
see
Manichaeans Duranus (Dordogne), R., 72 Duruy, Victor 7

Ecdicius 75

Edirne, see Hadrianopolis education 175ft.; see
also
rhetoric Egypt 146, 148L, 180 Elusa (Eauze) 116 Elvira,
see
Illiberis Ennodius 42

Epiphanius of Constantia 163
equites, see
Knights Etruria 72 Eudoxius 66 Eugenius 9, 33, 159 Eugippius 46

Eunapius of Sardis 151, 160 eunuchs ioif., 117

Euphrates, R. 13 Euric 2if., 123, i3of., 140 Eusebius 58, 154, 163 Eutropius (statesman) 70, 102,

ii7f.,
169L
Euxine Sea,
see
Black Sea

Faesulae (Fiesole) 11 federate states, units 8f., i2f.,

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