Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Spes Rei Publicae: the hope of the State?
Part One
1: The Emperor in the Late Roman World
2: Gratian and Valentinian II: Setting the Precedent
3: Long-term Success and Failure
4: Adjusting the Imperial Image
Part Two: Honorius
5: An Accident of Power?
6: The Regime of Stilicho
7: The Interregnum and the Rise of Flavius Constantius
Part Three: Valentinian III
8: The Struggle for Power
9: The Regime of Aetius
10: Valentinian III: Child-turned-Adult Emperor?
Conclusion
Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Meaghan A. McEvoy is a research scholar at the British School in Rome, a research fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections in Washington DC, and since 2010 has held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Reviews

McEvoy's monograph will be essential reading ... and represents a major contribution to our understanding of one of the great transitional periods in European and world history.
*David M. Gwynn, English Historical Review*

McEvoy has produced an impressive analysis that challenges historians to re-evaluate child emperors and the role traditionally assigned to them in destabilizing the western empire.
*Richard Flower, Early Medieval Europe*

McEvoy is to be congratulated on producing a fine, clearly-written study which signifcantly advances our understanding of the exercise of political power during an important phase of late Roman history.
*A. D. Lee, Journal of Roman Studies*