ISBN10: 0521201594, ISBN13: 9780521201599, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover First Edition xli, 1342 Seiten Einband mit geringen Lagerspuren, innen sehr guter und sauberer Zustand 9780521201599 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1976 Gr.-8°, Leinen- Hardcover/Pappeinband
[Murstetten, Austria] [Publication Year: 1980]
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ISBN10: 0521201594, ISBN13: 9780521201599, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (.), 1980. 1st ed. 1355p. Original red cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Series: Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. ?The publication of PLRE II marks an epoch in the study of the Later Empire. To make it possible a large team of scholars has read and excerpted authors. (?) J.R. Martingale has been the anchor-man. He composed the first draft of every entry in this monumental work, and was also responsible for their final form. His selfless devotion demands the highest recognition. PLRE II follows the pattern devised by A.H.M. Jones for volume I. An enormous mass of information is set out clearly, concisely, and accurately. The volume includes all office-holders, military and civilian, known from the geographical area of the Roman empire between A.D. 395 and 527. At the end there are lists of the holders of different offices, and stemmata of families. These tables, together with the fact that all office-holders of the period are included in the same book, make each volume of PLRE into a self-sufficient work of reference. (?) The editors have seen the major task of prosopography to be ?the presentation of primary sources in convenient form? (?) PLRE II is likely to prove even more valuable than PLRE I. it covers years of tremendous changeL in the West the collapse of the Empire and the establishment of barbarian kingdoms in its p ...

ISBN10: 0521201594, ISBN13: 9780521201599, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (.), 1980. 1st ed. 1355p. Original red cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Series: Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. ?The publication of PLRE II marks an epoch in the study of the Later Empire. To make it possible a large team of scholars has read and excerpted authors. (?) J.R. Martingale has been the anchor-man. He composed the first draft of every entry in this monumental work, and was also responsible for their final form. His selfless devotion demands the highest recognition. PLRE II follows the pattern devised by A.H.M. Jones for volume I. An enormous mass of information is set out clearly, concisely, and accurately. The volume includes all office-holders, military and civilian, known from the geographical area of the Roman empire between A.D. 395 and 527. At the end there are lists of the holders of different offices, and stemmata of families. These tables, together with the fact that all office-holders of the period are included in the same book, make each volume of PLRE into a self-sufficient work of reference. (?) The editors have seen the major task of prosopography to be ?the presentation of primary sources in convenient form? (?) PLRE II is likely to prove even more valuable than PLRE I. it covers years of tremendous changeL in the West the collapse of the Empire and the establishment of barbarian kingdoms in its p ...