TERMINOLOGY DECEMBER 6-10
400 AD:
120 provinces, 12 dioceses, 4 Prefectures: Gaul, Italy, Illyricum, Orient,
each under one praetorian prefect who reports to a tetrarch
Under
4 prefectures and praetorian prefects: 12 vicars (overseers of dioceses)
= proconsuls, consuls, etc.
Under
vicars: secretarial bureaus, ministries of arsenals, taxes, public post,
intelligence service, palace administration, sacred largesses, imperial
factories, imperial estates
Division
between military and civilian authority (provincial armies under duces
= "dukes"
Diocletian's
Price Edict
Diocletian
abdicates 303, by 310 five Augusti; 312: Constantine, son of Constantius,
vs. Maxentius, at the Milvian Bridge across the Tiber River
313:
Constantine's "Edict of Milan": freedom of worship granted to all subjects
of Empire, Christian churches as legal corporations
316:
Constantine in West, Licinius in East
324:
Constantine sole ruler. Founds Constantinopolis on site of Byzantium at
entrance to Hellespont. 330: official residence
Constantine
as Pontifex Maximus; worshipper of Elah-Gabal
325:
ecumenical Council of bishops at Nicaea arbitrated by Constantine
-
Arianism - or the supremacy of God
over Jesus and the Holy Spirit - deemed heretical
-
Adoption of Nicene Creed - Jesus
was born from, but not created by, God
Baptism
on death-bed in 337; inherited by Constans, Constantinus II, Constantius
II
List
of Roman Emperors (de
Imperatoribus Romanis)
Julian
("the Apostate") 360-363
395:
Empire divided in two
Separation
of provinces:
410:
Britain
420:
Gaul
430:
North Africa
410: sack
of Rome by Alaric, Visigoths
476:
Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of Rome
526:
Justinian closes the doors of the Academy in Athens
6th-8th
centuries: Germans, Ostrogoths, Lombards occupy Rome
Dec.
25, 800: Charlemagne & Carolingians occupy Rome
10th
century: Holy Roman Empire
Last
Emperor: Francis I of Austria, 1806
Lawcodes
of Theodosius II (438 AD), Justinian (534 AD)