“Political Assassination in the Late Roman Empire” - The birth of the Early Medieval culture of political violence Ghent University
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late
Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) primarily as
the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident
outcome of imperial disintegration in the western Mediterranean and
its hinterland. Instead, my project investigates this era’s increase in
murder (in sharp contrast to the late third and fourth centuries) in
both ...