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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Background -- Dividing the Empire; Chapter 2: Rise to Power; Chapter 3: The New Emperors; Chapter 4: The Revolt of Procopius and the Alamannic Invasion: 365-366; Chapter 5: 367; Chapter 6: 368; Chapter 7: 369; Chapter 8: 370; Chapter 9: 371; Chapter 10: 372; Chapter 11: 373; Chapter 12: 374; Chapter 13: 375; Chapter 14: 376; Chapter 15: Crisis in the East; Chapter 16: The 'Calm' Before the Storm; Chapter 17: The Battle of Adrianople; Aftermath and Conclusion; Appendix;The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of his murdered successor, Jovian (364). With the Empire weakened and vulnerable to a victorious Persia in the East and opportunistic Germanic tribes along the Rhine and Danube frontiers, not to mention usurpers and rebellions within, it was not an enviable position. Valentian decided t.
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