The Rise and Decline of the Roman Empire

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The Principate

The Joint Government of the Princeps and Senate

The Family of Augustus and His Plans to Found a Dynasty

Rome and Parthia

The Winning and Losing of Germany

Rome Under Augustus

Literature of the Augustan Age

The Principate of Tiberius

The Principate of Gaius Caligula

The Principate of Claudius

The Conquest of Britain

The Principate of Nero

The Wars for Armenia

The Principate of Galba, and the Year of the Four Emperors

Rebellions in Germany and Judea

The Flavian Emperors

Britain and Germany Under the Flavians

Nerva and Trajan — the Conquest of Dacia

Literature From the Death of Tiberius to Trajan

The Principate of Hadrian

The Principate of Antoninus Pius

The Principate of Marcus Aurelius

Literature Under Hadrian and the Antonines

The Roman World Under the Empire — Politics, Philosophy, Religion and Art

Roman Life and Manners

Decline and the Last Years of the Roman Empire

The Constitution of the Monarchy

The Administrative Machinery

Constantinople

The Neighbours of the Empire at the End of the Fourth Century

The Supremacy of Stilicho

The German Invasions Under Honorius

Theodosius II and Marcian

The Dismemberment of the Empire in the West

The Empire of Attila

Leo I and Ricimer's Rule in Italy

Church and State

The Reign of Zeno, and the German Viceroyalty in Italy

The Reign of Anastasius I and the Viceroyalty of Theoderic

The Empire and Persia

Justin I and Justinian I

The Persian Wars

The Reconquest of Africa

The Reconquest of Italy

Diplomacy and Commerce

Administrative Reforms and Finance

Ecclesiastical Policy

The Legislative Work of Justinian

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John Bagnell Bury (1861 – 1927) was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He held the position of Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin.