03-03-2016, 08:00 PM
(03-03-2016, 05:51 PM)Longovicium Wrote: I understand the general consensus that it ushered in a period of relative peace and stabilised a porous border region
Considering Valens was overseeing war on the eastern borders from 370 until he had to march back west for his date with destiny I don't think you could say it was a period of relative peace.
Maybe true for the immediate area around Nisibis, but not the wider border.