Fred Jenkins’s Reviews > The Romans: A 2,000-Year History > Status Update

"One of these monks was Shenoute, the eighty-three-year-old head of a monastic community in Upper Egypt, who hit Nestorius on the head with a Bible when he first saw the Constantinopolitan bishop."

"The recent, disastrous reign of Honorius had shown the Romans how dangerous it could be to entrust actual decision-making to a foolish man who spent his entire life surrounded by sycophants."

On the Constitutio Antoniniana:

Universal Roman citizenship made everyone in the empire Roman, but it did not destroy whatever other identity they possessed. This was an addition to their identity, not a replacement.