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THE EMPRESSES OF ROME

CRISPINA

BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

THE
EMPRESSES OF ROME

BY
JOSEPH McCABE
AUTHOR OF “THE DECAY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME”

WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1911

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The period embraced by this work extends to thefall of the Western Empire, or to the middle ofthe fifth century. It was felt that a more extensiverange would involve either an inconveniently large workor an inadequate treatment. While, therefore, the Empressesof the East have been included down to the fallof Rome, it seemed that the collapse of the Empire inRome and the West indicated a quite natural term forthe present study. The restriction has enabled the authorto tell all that is known of the Empresses of Rome withinthat period, to enlarge the interest of the study by framingthe Imperial characters in occasional sketches of theirsurroundings, and to weave the threads of biography intoa continuous story.

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