HIST 2904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Scholae Palatinae, Gallienus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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3 diocletian and the restoration of order. 303: celebrated 20 years on the throne: he was supposed to leave, took a little longer to handle administrative affairs. Like with trajan, some of diocletian"s building were transformed and reworked into christianity. Diocletian and constantine have to be viewed together. Ideas on reform of the empire, constantine continues some reforms diocletian started, Response to third century crisis, emperors trying to deal with all the aspects of the reject others that diocletian did. crisis. Son of constantius chlorus and helena (junior member of tetrarchy from last week. ) born around 280. soldier, practical man (like diocletian) Caesares: (two new ones needed to be chosen) No provision for if someone in the tetrarchy dies. Constantius chlorus died in britain at york (natural) But: in rome, maxentius, son of maximian, proclaimed emperor and 307 crisis causes maximian to come out of retirement. ~in the end, unable to pull it together.