Abstract
This chapter focuses on the meaning of provinces in the Constantinian empire and offers a discussion on the following three themes. First, the chapter examines the geography of the late Roman provincial system by looking at the increase of the number of provinces and the reasoning behind the cutting of specific provincial territories. What was the effect of the reduction of a province’s territory on that province? The geography of provinces is indissolubly connected to the geography of the dioceses and prefectures as well. Second, this chapter investigates the position of governors within the larger structure of the imperial administration as well as within their provincial territories. The third part presents insights into the functioning of provinces by way of an analysis of the relationship between the inhabitants of the provinces and their governors. How are we to interpret their relationship in the fourth century? What was the effect of the administrational changes of the early fourth century on the relationship between governors and provincials?
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