Book contents
- The Falls of Rome
- The Falls of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
- Abbreviations for Imperial Offices in Late Antiquity
- 1 Approaches to the Fate of the Late Antique City
- 2 The Constantinian Compromise
- 3 Responses to the Sack of Rome in 410
- 4 Rome after the 455 Vandal Occupation
- 5 Why Gibbon Was Wrong
- 6 The Fall of Ostrogothic Rome and the Justinianic Reconstruction
- 7 The Demise of the Senate
- Tables
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Demise of the Senate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2021
Book contents
- The Falls of Rome
- The Falls of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
- Abbreviations for Imperial Offices in Late Antiquity
- 1 Approaches to the Fate of the Late Antique City
- 2 The Constantinian Compromise
- 3 Responses to the Sack of Rome in 410
- 4 Rome after the 455 Vandal Occupation
- 5 Why Gibbon Was Wrong
- 6 The Fall of Ostrogothic Rome and the Justinianic Reconstruction
- 7 The Demise of the Senate
- Tables
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I focus on why the competition for power among senatorial, imperial, and military elites that had stimulated the recovery of the city of Rome in the face of multiple civic and military crises no longer was effective in the later sixth and early seventh centuries. The end of Rome’s political senatorial aristocracy and its political body, the Senate, is the final “fall” of Rome. In its place, a papal-focused city dependent on Byzantine military might would emerge in the seventh century.
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- The Falls of RomeCrises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity, pp. 300 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021