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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress

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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress - Sivan, Hagith
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The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew, Theodosius II (408-450), hardly ever ventured beyond the fortified enclosure of their palaces, Galla spent years wandering across Italy, Gaul and Spain first as hostage in the camp of Alaric the Goth, and then as wife of Alaric's successor. In exile at the court of her nephew in ...

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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress 2011, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195379136

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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress 2011, Oxford University Press Inc, New York

ISBN-13: 9780195379129

Hardcover