Kelly, Governance & Ranking Late Empire
Centralisation, administration, limits on power, offices, "officials were technically soldiers"
The Source:
Christopher Kelly*, ‘Emperors, Government and Bureaucracy, in The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XIII, The Late Empire, A.D. 337-425, edited by Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey*, Cambridge University Press 1998
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