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Preface; Abbreviations; List of Maps; List of Images; Part One: A New Empire; New Rome and the New Romans; The scaffold of society and personality of government; From Christian nation to Roman religion; Part Two: Dynastic Insecurities and Religious Passions; The first Christian emperors of the east (324-361); Competing religions of empire (337-364); Toward an independent east (364-395); The city and the desert: Cultures old and new; Part Three: The Return of Civilian Government; The ascendancy of the political class (395-441); Barbarian terrors and military mobilization (441-491); Political consolidation and religious polarization (491-518); Part Four: The Strain of Grand Ambitions; Chalcedonian repression and the eastern axis (518-531); The Sleepless Emperor (527-540); War everywhere and plague (540-565); The price of overextension (565-602); Part Five: To the Brink of Despair; The great war with Persia (602-630); Commanders of the Faithful (632-644); A contest of wills (641-685); Part Six: Resilience and Recovery; Life and taxes among the ruins; An empire of outposts (685-717); The lion and the dragon (717-775); Reform and consolidation (775-815); A new confidence (815-867); Part Seven: The Path towards Empire; A new David and Solomon (867-912); A game of crowns (912-950); The apogee of Roman arms (950-1025); A brief hegemony (1025-1048); Part Eight: A New Paradigm; The walls close in: Losing Italy and the east (1048-1081); Crisis management, the Komnenian way (1081-1118); Good John and the Sun King: A second apogee (1118-1180); Disintegration and betrayal (1180-1204); Part Nine: Exile and Return; A new France: Colonial occupation; Romans west and Romans east (1204-1261); Union with Rome and Roman Disunity (1261-1282); Territorial retrenchment and cultural innovation (1282-1328); Part Ten: The Struggle for Dignity at The End; Military failure and mystical solace (1328-1354); The walls close in (1354-1402); The cusp of a new world (1402-1461); Glossary; State Revenues and Payments to Foreign Groups, Fifth-Seventh Centuries; Bibliography

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