Eternal victory triumphal rulership in late antiquity, Byzantium, and early medieval West

Presentación del editor: "As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCormick, Michael, 1951- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [etc.] : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison de sciences de l'homme 1999
Colección:Past and present publications
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  • Foreword; Note to the paperback edition; Abbreviations; Introduction: imperial triumph as a historical problem; 1. Invincible empire: the ideology of victiry under the principate; 2. Out of the streets and into the circus: the development of imperial victory celebrations in the later Roman empire; 3. Imperial victory celebrations and the public life of the later Roman state; 4. The development of imperial victory celebrations in early medieval byzantium; 5. Organizing a byzantine triumph; 6. A distant echo: victory celebrations in the imperial provinces; 7. Ephemeral empires: triumphal rulership in Barbarian Africa, Burgundy and Italy; 8, The king's victory in visigothic Spain; 9. From late antique to early feudal society: frankish victory celebrations; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography of primary sources cited; Frequently cited secondary sources; Descriptive list of figures; Index.