Philip Grierson

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Dumbarton Oaks

Whittemore Collection

Melinda Mays

This is the first fully illustrated catalogue of a major collection of late Roman and early Byzantine imperial coins. It follows the general layout of the Byzantine volumes in the Dumbarton Oaks series, with a substantial introduction dealing with the history of the coinage, including iconography, mints, and monetary system. In this volume, however, all the coins are illustrated in the plates.

From Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius

Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection

The successful coexistence of different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups within the same political boundaries depends in part on the resolution of the tension between uniformity and separateness. This volume reviews sources of tension and their resolution in a number of cases that may be considered paradigmatic and which include nomads and Muslims, the Serbs, the Armenians, and the population of Byzantine Italy. The mechanisms of integration or acculturation and their various degrees of success are investigated - as are the responses of different groups - in an effort to present some of the complexities of this society, rich in its diversity and impressive in its unicity.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

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