The Political Face of Late Roman Empresses: Christian Symbols on Coins from the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries
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Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
Foreword Note to the paperback edition Abbreviations Introduction: imperial triumph as a historical problem 1. Invincible empire: the ideology of victiry under the principate 2. Out of the streets and into the circus: the development of imperial victory celebrations in the later Roman empire 3. Imperial victory celebrations and the public life of the later Roman state 4. The development of imperial victory celebrations in early medieval byzantium 5. Organizing a byzantine triumph 6. A distant echo: victory celebrations in the imperial provinces 7. Ephemeral empires: triumphal rulership in Barbarian Africa, Burgundy and Italy 8, The king's victory in visigothic Spain 9. From late antique to early feudal society: frankish victory celebrations Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography of primary sources cited Frequently cited secondary sources Descriptive list of figures Index.
XV. Notes on the Geological Survey Memoir—“The Geology of the Glasgow District.”
Introductory. During the late summer the Geological Survey issued a map of the Glasgow district which will prove a boon not only to the members of this Society, but also to the increasing number of those who, although not members, still take an interest in geology as a branch of liberal education. The present map differs from its predecessors in that it is colour-printed, and the printing and general details are brought out more clearly than was possible in the hand-coloured maps. This fact has been taken advantage of to add an enormous amount of detail, which is often of such a minute character that after study one feels inclined to wish that he were gifted with microscopic eyes or that the map had been drawn to a larger scale. Not the least of its benefits is the low price at which it is sold (2s. on paper, and 3s. on cloth), the price of the previous maps having lately become prohibitive (19s. 3d. on paper). It will be observed that the long way of the map is from north to south. This has doubtless been adopted for good and sufficient reasons, if we only knew them; but I, at least, would have preferred that the long way should have been east and west, with Glasgow in the centre. The map is accompanied by an extensive memoir of the geology of the district, and the more one reads of it the more one is impressed with the This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract