GRATIAN, Roman Emperor of the West

grāˈshən, 359–83, Roman emperor of the West (375–83). At the death of his father, Valentinian I, he accepted the army's election of his brother, Valentinian II, as his colleague. Gratian took Britain, Gaul, and Spain as his own share of the empire and acted as guardian for Valentinian in Italy, Illyricum, and Africa. After the death of Valens (378), he made Theodosius I emperor of the East. Gratian fought successfully against the barbarians. He appointed St. Ambrose as an adviser and vigorously attacked paganism, ordering the removal of the altar of Victory from the senate house and the confiscation of the revenues of the vestal virgins and refusing the title pontifex maximus. Toward the end of his reign he neglected public affairs for hunting. In 383 he was assassinated by the followers of Maximus.

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books on: Gratian Roman Emperor of the West  - 127 results

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Emperor, Prefects & Kings: The Roman West, 395-565
Book by P. S. Barnwell; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects: Italy--Politics And Government--476-1268, Rome--Politics And Government--284-476
...presumably the comprehensive imperial archives of the west which were used, rather than the partial and scattered...century, one of the main imperial residences in the west had been Trier and, especially under Gratian and Valentinian
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Roman Britain and the English Settlements
Book by R. G. Collingwood, J. N. L. Myres; Biblo and Tannen, 1990
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
...Valentinian was succeeded as emperor of the west by his son Gratian. Before the young...greatest disasters of Roman history, the battle of Adrianople. Gratian, realizing the need...which deserted to him. Gratian fled and was murdered...
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Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D
Book by Noel Lenski; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--Valens, 364-378, Rome--History--Valentinian I, 364-375, Valens--Emperor Of The East--Ca. 328-378, Valentinian--I--Emperor Of Rome--321-375
purse. Emperors had owned estates...and all reigning emperors. In June 364...in 375 when the emperor died at Brigetio...located twenty-six Roman miles west of Sirmium, was...fifteen-yearold Gratian, in Trier. 148...former property of Gratian the elder. In the...
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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
Book by Jan Willem Drijvers, David Hunt; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Ammianus Marcellinus--Rerum Gestarum Libri, Emperors--Rome--Biography--History And Criticism, Greeks--Rome--Biography, Historians--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography
...taxation, in the West. 27 Indeed, it...German invasion but Roman civil war, which...estimation of this emperor, that of Otto Seeck...more significant West. 31 And this was...unorthodox proclamation of Gratian as fellow-Augustus...of the stimulus of Roman civil war, Alamanni...
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The Ending of Roman Britain
Book by A. S. Esmonde Cleary; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Great Britain--Antiquities, Roman, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D, Romans--Great Britain
...the reign of the emperor Theodosius I, son...Flattery of the emperors father by vividly...flattery of the emperor himself. Archaeologically...who was killed was Gratian, son of Valentinian...Maximus ruled the west, principally from...literary device. In Roman literature Britain...the far north-west. In both passages...
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Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Meets the Civil Law
Journal article by Thomas P. Doyle, Stephen C. Rubino; Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 31, 2004
Subjects: Civil law--Evaluation, Roman Catholic clergy--Laws, regulations and rules, Sexual abuse--Laws, regulations and rules
...the official state religion by Emperor Constantine. In the Roman Empire, the kleros were the municipal...mystery and separateness of the Roman Catholic clergy. (293) Catholic...Although it has been primarily a Roman Catholic phenomenon, anti-clericalism...
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The Sacramental World in the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Journal article by Thomas M. Finn; Theological Studies, Vol. 69, 2008
Subjects: Book of Sentences (Theological work)--Criticism and interpretation, Lombard, Peter--Criticism and interpretation, Lombard, Peter--Works, Sacraments--Analysis, Theologians--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Works
...and called in the West poenitentia secunda...the custom of the Roman church shows that...Christians in the West were reaching out...outbreaks. Even Gratian, down in Bologna...between East and West is that Byzantine Emperor Leo VI (866-912...
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The Council in Trullo Revisited: Ecumenism and the Canon of the Councils
Journal article by George Nedungatt; Theological Studies, Vol. 71, 2010
Subjects: Canon law, Ecumenical movement--History, Quinisext Synod, 691, Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965
...Council in the West during the first...the idea of the Roman primacy, on which the East and the West already differed...For the youthful Emperor Justinian II...promulgavit" (Gratian, Decretum, Dist...fourth unit of the Roman law issued by...Tradition in East and West," in Council...
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Sex and Marriage in the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Journal article by Thomas M. Finn; Theological Studies, Vol. 72, 2011
Subjects: Lombard, Peter--Criticism and interpretation, Lombard, Peter--Works, Marriage and sex--Analysis, Religion and literature--Criticism and interpretation, Religious literature--Criticism and interpretation, The Four Books of Sentences (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Works
...millennium. (10) Under Roman law and the Western...nuptial liturgy in the West is reflected in a...at least in the West). (17) In fact...Although Byzantine Emperor Leo VI (866-912...marriage in the West only gradually moved...lawyers, especially Gratian. (20) Not surprisingly...
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The Papal Antichrist: Martin Luther and the Underappreciated Influence of Lorenzo Valla
Journal article by David M. Whitford; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Antichrist--Analysis, Humanists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Luther, Martin (German religious leader)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Papacy--Analysis, Religious leaders--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Valla, Lorenzo--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...ceremony. He was Emperor of the Romans, not king. And...opportunity to step on the emperors neck and quote Psalm...humiliation of not just an emperor, but a heroic German...competition with the Holy Roman Empire as he was...existence of the Roman Empire." (39...that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such...
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Friends, Romans or Countrymen? Barbarians in the Empire
Magazine article by Stephen Williams, Gerard Friell; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Barbarian invasions of Rome--History, Germanic tribes--History, Rome (Ancient)--History, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. (Empire)
...collegial emperors of East and West, whose regional...the Eastern emperor Valens to...the local Roman officials...Goths met the Roman army outside...emperor, Gratian, appointed...Theodosius, Emperor of the East...two co-emperors were at last...both the emperors and the Goths...into the Roman command structure...with the emperor: they would...out of the Romans as a result...
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Two-Way Archetypes
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 43, June 1993
Subjects: Art objects, Russian--Exhibitions, Cultural relations--Russia, Ortiz, George--Collections and collecting
...antiquity in the West. |From the Treasuries...for exhibits in the West. Exquisite sixth...Etruscan objects, Roman sculpture and cameos...marble head of the emperor Gratian and a Byzantine reliquary...understanding of East and West. George Ortiz at...


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Gratian , Roman Emperor of the West
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GRATIAN , Roman emperor of the West gra sh n, 359 83, Roman emperor of the West (375 83). At the death of his father...Valentinian II , as his colleague. Gratian took Britain, Gaul, and Spain as...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Valentinian I, ruler of the West, 375 92 Eugenius, usurper in the West, 393 94 Theodosius I...the East, 379 95, by Gratian; last ruler of united...75 Basilicus, 475 76 Emperors in the West Honorius, son of Theodosius...Constantius III, named joint emperor by Honorius, 421 Valentinian...
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Roman Catholic Church
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Christian...temporal life. In the West (unlike the East...the history of the Roman Catholic Church...mystical prayer. Gratian founded the systematic...antipapal theories of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II . Also...
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Maximus, Magnus Clemens
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAXIMUS, MAGNUS CLEMENS d. 388, Roman emperor of the West (383 388). After his followers murdered Gratian , he was recognized as ruler of Britain, Gaul, and Spain by Theodosius I . He invaded Italy in 387, expelling Valentinian II...
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Theodosius I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Great, 346? 395, Roman emperor of the East (379 95) and emperor of the West (394 95), son...there until Emperor Gratian chose him to rule...Theodosius, whom Gratian made co-augustus...as emperor in the West outside Italy, where...
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