Behind the Times: The Life of Julian the Apostate
Although he died in his early thirties and was Emperor for a scant year and a half, his life enjoys a documentation rivaling that of other historical celebrities such as Diocletian, Constantine, and Theodosius the Great.
Julian and The Decision to Fight: Strasbourg, 357
In the year 357, the armies of the Alamanni king Chnodomar crossed the Rhine and assembled just north of Strasbourg. Answering this challenge was the western empire
Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian
The purpose of this study then is to explore the way in which anger was used to strengthen and validate the portrait of Julian in the narrative history of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours
Ammianus (c. 330–c. 395) and Gregory of Tours (538–594) both wrote large-scale histories and, as a soldier and a bishop respectively, had first hand experience of many of the persons and events they wrote of. But they lived in very different worlds, the splendid Indian summer of the Roman Empire on the one hand, and the fragmented, perpetually feuding Germanic kingdoms of sixth century, sub-Roman, Merovingian Gaul on the other, where not only bodily coverings and adornments themselves changed but some attitudes towards them did too.