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Author: Richard Flower
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781107335103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the earliest surviving invectives against a living Roman emperor and their significance for political and religious history.
Author: Richard Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1107031729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise and blame in the Roman world -- Constructing a Christian tyrant -- Writing auto-hagiography -- Living up to the past.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004370927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious, and literary contexts. Drawing on the recent Representational Turn in the study of imperial power, these essays examine how literary authors working in various genres, both Latin and Greek, and of differing religious affiliations construct and manipulate the depiction of a series of emperors from the late third to the late fourth centuries CE. In a move away from traditional source criticism, this volume opens up new methodological approaches to chart intellectual and literary history during a critical century for the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author: María Pilar García Ruiz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-01-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9004446923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, nine contributions deal with the ways in which imperial power was exercised in the fourth century AD, paying particular attention to how it was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.
Author: Nathan Israel Smolin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-04-23
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 019768954X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor Constantine the Great, was a society marked by social, religious, and political transformation as the empire came under the influence of the Christian Church. To understand how this period's emperors and bishops, among other political and social actors, thought about and enacted political theory, Nathan Israel Smolin turns to theological sources, revealing an age of profound political, social, and religious ferment, in which ideas and structures fundamental to the history of the following millennia were developed and contested--ideas that continue to shape our world today.
Author: Kamil Cyprian Choda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9004411798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity studies fundamental dynamics of the political culture of the Later Roman Empire (4th and 5th centuries A.D.) by examining how people rose in and fell from the emperor’s favour.
Author: Caillan Davenport
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-23
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0192865234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it considers continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian. Thirteen case studies are presented. Some take a thematic approach, analysing specific aspects such as the appointment of jurists, the role of guard units, or stories told about the court, over several centuries. Others concentrate on specific periods, individuals, or office holders, like the role of women and generals in the fifth century AD, while paying attention to their wider historical significance. The volume concludes with a chapter placing the evolution of the Roman imperial court in comparative perspective using insights from scholarship on other Eurasian monarchical courts. It shows that the long-term transformation of the Roman imperial court did not follow a straightforward and linear course, but came about as the result of negotiation, experimentation, and adaptation.
Author: Moysés Marcos
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-26
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0520394976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPanegyric, the art of publicly praising prominent political figures, occupied an important place in the Roman Empire throughout late antiquity. Orators were skilled political actors who manipulated the conventions of praise giving, taking great license with what they chose to present (or omit). Their ancient speeches are rare windows into the world of panegyrists, emperors, and their audiences. In Emperors and Rhetoricians, Moysés Marcos offers an original, comprehensive look at all panegyrics to and by Julian, who in 355/56 CE promoted himself as a learned caesar by producing his own panegyric on his cousin and Augustan benefactor, Constantius II. During key stages in his public career and throughout the time he held imperial power, Julian experimented with and utilized panegyric as both political communication and political opportunity. Marcos expertly mines this vast body of work to uncover a startlingly new picture of Julian the Apostate, explore anew the arc of his career in imperial office, and model new ways to interpret and understand imperial speeches of praise.
Author: Richard Flower
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0198813198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how individuals and groups ascribed religious categories during late antiquity. Particular focus is given to the role of rhetoric in the expression of religious identity, in order to give mutual illumination to both phenomena in this period.
Author: Julia Hillner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0521517516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the 'birth of the prison'.
