Contested monarchy integrating the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD

This volume aims to reappraise the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395) and thus on a major developmental phase in the history of the Roman Empire. Dur...

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Otros Autores: Wienand, Johannes, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press [2015]
Colección:Oxford studies in late antiquity.
Oxford scholarship online.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009840137906719
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  • Cover; Contested Monarchy; Series; Contested Monarchy; Copyright; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Cloak of Power: Dressing and Undressing the King; Part One Administering the Empire; 2 Domesticating the Senatorial Elite: Universal Monarchy and Transregional Aristocracy in the Fourth Century ad; 3 The Inflation of Rank and Privilege: Regulating Precedence in the Fourth Century ad; 6 Gaul and the Roman Emperors of the Fourth Century; 7 Regional Dynasties and Imperial Court
  • Part Two Performing the Monarchy8 Emperors, Usurpers, and the City of Rome: Performing Power from Diocletian to Theodosius; 9 O tandem felix civili, Roma, victoria! Civil-War Triumphs from Honorius to Constantine and Back; 10 Coping with the Tyrant's Faction: Civil-War Amnesties and Christian Discourses in the Fourth Century ad; 11 Pliny and Pacatus: Past and Present in Imperial Panegyric; 12 Born to Be Emperor: The Principle of Succession and the Roman Monarchy; 13 Performing Justice: The Penal Code of Constantine the Great; Part Three Balancing Religious Change
  • 14 Speaking of Power: Christian Redefinition of the Imperial Role in the Fourth Century15 Constantine, Rome, and the Christians; 16 Constantine and the Tyche of Constantinople; 17 A Vain Quest for Unity: Creeds and Political (Dis)Integration in the Reign of Constantius II; 18 The Challenge of Religious Violence: Imperial Ideology and Policy in the Fourth Century; 19 The Famous 'Altar of Victory Controversy' in Rome: The Impact of Christianity at the End of the Fourth Century; Epilogue; 20 The Empire's Golden Shade: Icons of Sovereignty in an Age of Transition; Bibliography; Index Locorum
  • General Index