Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Part i. The End of Classical Urban Politics3. Post-curial Civic Government4. The Rise of the Bishop5. Civic Finance in the Late Roman Cities of the East6. Shows and Factions7. part II. A Society Transformed8. Conflict and Disorder in the East9. Decline and the Beginnings of Renewal in the East, including the Eastern Balkans10. The Transformation of Literary Culture in the West under the Influence of Christianity11. The Decline of Classical Citizenship and the Rise of Ethnic Solidarity in the West12. Decline and the Beginnings of Renewal in the West13. Summary and Conclusions