{"id":7133,"date":"2025-12-17T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=7133"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:45:26","slug":"rome-and-its-enemies-decline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=7133","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Empire in the 4th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tunnicliffe<\/p>\n<p>The fourth century saw great changes in the Roman world. It began with the persecution of Christians under Diocletian but ended with Christianity as the official religion of the Empire. The figure of Constantine the Great looms large over the century but other emperors such as Julian the Apostate or Theodosius are also of note. This course will examine the changes that ensued in society, politics and religion and ends with a look at Roman Britain on the eve of the departure of the legions at the start of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ammianus Marcellinus 1986 Penguin Classics<\/p>\n<p>David Potter 2012 <em>Constantine the Emperor <\/em>Oxford University Press<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Murdoch 2003 <em>The Last Pagan <\/em>Sutton Publishing (an account of the life of Julian)<\/p>\n<p>David Potter 2004 <em>The Roman Empire at Bay AD180-395<\/em> Routledge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day:\u00a0 Thursdays\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Time: 1.45-3.45pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>START DATE<\/b>: 6 weeks, from <strong>16th<\/strong><b>\u00a0April <\/b>to\u00a0<strong>21st May 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Online Lecture (Zoom)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Price for the Series:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"221\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\u00a348<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\">8<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please contact: Michael Tunnicliffe 5 St George\u2019s Way, Northwich, CW9 8XG,\u00a0<strong>phone<\/strong>: 01606 42116\u00a0<strong>email<\/strong>: mtunni@sky.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tunnicliffe The fourth century saw great changes in the Roman world. It began with the persecution of Christians under Diocletian but ended with Christianity as the official religion of the Empire. The figure of Constantine the Great looms large over the century but other emperors such as Julian the Apostate or Theodosius are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}