The Imperial Cult and Paganism: Burlier, E., Le Culte imperial; Cumont, F., Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism; Dill, Roman Society; Ferguson, W. S., Legalized Absolutism en route from Greece to Rome, Amer. Hist. Rev., 1912; Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners, vol. iii; Geffcken, J., Der Ausgang des griechisch-römischen Heidentums, 1920; Glover, T. R., Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire; Heinen, H., Zur Begründung des römischen Kaiserkults, Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, 1910; Kornemann, E., Zur Geschichte der antiken Herrscherkulte, id., 1900; Reitzenstein, R., Die hellenisteschen Mysterienreligionen; Wissowa, Religion und Kultur, pp. 66–83.

Christianity and the Roman State: Guimet, E., Les chrétiens et l’empire romain, la Nouvelle Revue, 1909; Hardy, Studies in Roman History, 1st ser., chs. i–x; Harnack, A., The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries; Flick, A. C., The Rise of the Medieval Church, see contents (excellent bibliography); Juster, J., Les Juifs dans l’empire romain; Manaresi, A., L’impero romano e il cristianesimo; Ramsay, Sir W., The Christian Church in the Roman Empire before 170 A. D.; Walker, W., A History of the Western Christian Church, pp. 1–108.

Literature and Art: Beloch, J., Der Verfall der antiken Kultur, Hist. Zeitschr. 1900; Cagnat and Chapot, Manuel d’archéologie romaine; Friedländer, L., Roman Life and Manners; Leo, Römische Litteratur; Mackail, Roman Literature, pp. 91–259; Norden, E., Römische Litterature; Schanz, Geschichte der röm. Litteratur, pts. ii–iii; Strong, E., Roman Sculpture; Stuart Jones, Companion to Roman History; Walters, H., The Art of the Romans.

Chapter XXI

Cambridge Medieval History, vol. i, chs. i–iii, vii, viii, with exhaustive bibliography; Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ed. Bury, chs. xiii–xxvii; Niese, Geschichte, pp. 376–402; Schiller, Röm. Kaiserzeit, vol. ii; Seeck, O., Geschichte des Untergangs der antiken Welt; Stuart Jones, Roman Empire, chs. x–xi. Special: Geffcken, J., Kaiser Julian.

Chapter XXII

General: Bury, J. B., A History of the Later Roman Empire, bk. i, ch. iv; Bussell, The Roman Empire, bk. ii, chs. i–ii; Reid, J. S., Camb. Med. Hist., vol. i, ch. ii; Karlowa, O., Römische Rechtsgeschichte, i, pp. 822–929; Schiller, Römische Kaiserzeit, ii, bk. iii, ch. i; Seeck, Geschichte, vol. ii, bk. iii.

Special: Bell, N., The Byzantine Servile State in Egypt, Jour. Egypt. Arch., iv; Boak, Roman Magistri in the Civil and Military Service of the Empire, Harvard Studies in Class. Phil., 1915; The Master of the Offices in the Later Roman and Byzantine Empires; Hirschfeld, Die Ranktitel der röm. Kaiserzeit, Sitzungsbericht der Berliner Akademie, 1901; Liebenam, Städteverwaltung; Rostowzew, see chap, xix, colonate; Waltzing, Corporations Professionelles; Wilcken, see chap. xix, provinces.

Chapter XXIII

Bury, Later Roman Empire, i, chs. ii–vi; Bussell, Roman Empire, i, bk. ii, chs. ii–iv; bk. iii, ch. i; Cambridge Medieval History, i, chs. ix–xvi; Gelzer, H., Abriss der Byzantinischen Geschichte, i, Die vorjustinianische Epoche; Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chs. xxix–xxxix; Lavisse et Rombaud, Histoire General, i, chs. ii–iv; Niese, Geschichte, pp. 402–21.