Banishment in the Later Roman Empire 284-476 CE

<p>This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. In its sources this work employs evidence from legal as well as literary materials to forge a complete picture of exile. To harvest all possible information from the period it considers elements from the arenas of the early church and the Roman Empire. Methodologically it situates ancient Christianity within the Roman world while remaining sensitive to the distinct views and roles held by late antique bishops. While banishment played a major role in the history of the Later Empire no work of scholarship has treated it as a topic in its own right.</p>