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SeverallettersofSt.Augustineshedlightonhowthecontemporaries
comprehendedthedutiesofthediocesanvicarofAfrica.78
Conclusionsregardingthejudiciaryofthediocesanvicarshavealsobeen
drawninthisworkonthebasisofepigraphicaldata.79Thoseofficialand
privatesourcesdemonstratedhowtheperformanceofjudicialdutiesby
vicarswasperceivedbytheinhabitantsoftheEmpire,andhelpedtoestab-
lishfactsrelatingtotheirtitulature80
1.2.3.Literatureofthesubject
BothPolishandinternationalliteratureofthesubjectlacksapublished
monographdedicatedtoLaterRomanvicarsofdioceseingeneral,notto
mentiontheirjudiciary.81Relevantremarks,scatteredthoughtheyare,may
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563-571;Lewandowski(1993);Janiszewski(1999):72-76;Lewandowski(2002),vol.1:15-58,
vol.2:271-293.
78Aug.Ep.152-155.AccordingtoincompletedatainWorldCat,thebibliographyofrelat-
edworkscomprises17878studiesin38102publications,writtenin68languages!(http://
worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-126290).
79Thelimitedsignificanceofepigraphyinthestudiesofvicarsstemsfromthefactthatof-
ficialinscriptionsmentioningthatgroupofimperialofficialsareindeedfew.SeeFeissel(2009)
whonotesmerelythreesuchinscriptionsfortheperiod324-610:no.56(CILIII352=CILIII
7000=ILS6091;seealsoChapter2.2);no.93(CILVIII14280,24609-24611),no.99(CILVI1783
=ILS2948).Concerningepigraphyingeneralcf.Łajtar(1999):364-416(LateAntiquity);
Kolendo(2003).
80Toalimitedextent,thisauthoralsotookadvantagedofpapyruseditions,whichserved
toascertainfactsrelatingtothetitulatureofdiocesanvicars.Forgeneralinformationonpapy-
rologyseeDerda(1999).
81AcomprehensiveoverviewoftheentireperiodofLateAntiquitymaybefoundin:Stein
(1925);(1949)and(1959);Jones(1964);Gaudemet(1967);Ostrogorski(1967):47-93;Bonini
(1989);Cervenca(1989);Demandt(2007)aswellastheCAHseries,vols.12-14.BothBury
(1958)andPiganiol(1947)remainrelevantwithrespecttothechronologyofevents.Moreover,
thetwolastdecadessawthepublicationofanumberofsynthesizingstudies;cf.e.g.Cameron
(1993);Bowersock,Brown,Grabar(1999);Morrisson(2007);Mitchell(2007).Theprinciplesof
organizationofLaterRomanEmpireinrecentworkispresentedwithinstructivediagramsin
Carney(1971),vol.1:89-136;Liebeschuetz(1987).ThecompendiumbyMousourakis(2003)
enjoysagreatpopularity:organizationofstateandlawinLateAntiquityisdiscussedonpp.
321-397.OtherworkswhichhavenotbecomeobsoleteincludeBury(1910),whichdiscusses
theprinciplesoftheHRomanconstitution”oftheLaterEmpire,andthesynthesisbyKarlowa
(1885):822-1028.OnthepositionoftheemperorseealsoDagron(2003):esp.13-27,59-69,
127-148.InPolishliterature,Koranyi(1963):7-45remainsindispensablewithrespecttoorgan-
izationofLaterRomanEmpire.GeneralportrayalsoftheRomansysteminrecentPolishwrit-
ingsmaybefoundalsoin:Zabłocki,Tarwacka(2005);Dębiński,Misztal-Konecka,Wójcik
(2010);Jurewiczetal.(2011).Wiewiorowski(2010c)offersabriefcompilationofremarkscon-
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