Greetings all,

Today May 22nd in 337 AD, the Emperor Constantine died:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great

He had been ill for some time and had prepared his resting place in the Church of the Holy Apostles. 

 

Constantine passed in Nicomedia, and was baptized shortly before his passing. 

 

-Marcus Cassius Julianus

 

 

 

 Greetings all,

Today we commemorate the Emperor Honorius (brother of the Eastern Emperor Arcadius) signing an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces on May 8th in 413 AD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius_(emperor)

Rome itself had been sacked in 410 AD, and Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria had also all been plundered by the Visigoths. 

This tax relief was an effort to help the provinces rebuild. Both Honorius and Arcadius have poor historical legacies for not being strong emperors, but they did provide some competent administration in some ways at least!

-Marcus Cassius Julianus

 

 

 

 

Greetings all,

 

Today we commemorate the passing of the Emperor Arcadius on May 1st in 408 AD:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius

 

He was the son of Emperor Theodosius I, Arcadius was Emperor of the East and his brother Honorius was Emperor of the West.

Arcadius not a strong ruler and was heavily influenced by both his advisors and his consort the Empress Aelia Eudocia for most of his rule. It seems that as a person he focused more on being an example of a pious Christian than being concerned with military or political matters.  He did however begin the Theodosian Walls around Constantinople and as his rule was mostly inoffensive he provided stable legal continuity through a troubled time.

 

-Marcus Cassius Julianus