UID:
almafu_9961565842602883
Format:
1 online resource (197 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
3-515-12407-1
Series Statement:
Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; Band 62
Content:
This book focuses on the functioning of Roman leadership in the period of the Tetrarchs to Theodosius (284-395). Our volume starts from the idea that the imperial and ecclesiastical administrations became interdependent in this period and thus presents an integrated approach of imperial and religious leadership. As the spread of ideology plays a key role in creating societal consensus and thus in wielding power successfully, the volume analyses both types of leadership from an ideological angle. It examines the communicative strategies employed by Roman emperors and bishops through analyzing the ideological messages that were disseminated by a variety of media: coins, architectural monuments, literary and legal texts. The central question of this volume is how, in a period in which an important shift took place in the power balance between church and state, emperors and bishops made use of ideology to bind people to them and thus to interact with their 'crowds', whether they be the inhabitants of the city of Rome or Constantinople, the subjects of the Empire at large or the members of the various religious communities.
Note:
Introduction : Leadership, Ideology and Crowds in the Roman Empire of the 4th Century AD / Jan Willem Drijvers, Erika Manders, Daniëlle Slootjes -- Architecture and power : Defining tetrarchic imperial residences / Verena Jaeschke -- Rhetoric and power : How imperial panegyric allowed Civilian elites to access power in the fourth century / Adrastos Omissi -- Coins against Christianity? : Maximinus' 'Persecution issues' in context / Erika Manders -- Moral und Rhetorik im Codex Theodosianus : Konstantins Strategien zur Beeinflussung der römischen Bevölkerung / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto -- 'His blood be upon us' : Protecting the Jews in Late Antiquity / John Curran -- Imperial leadership : Constantius II / Gerda de Kleijn -- Damasus and the charioteers : Crowds, leadership and media in late antique Rome / Marianne Sághy -- 'Venerabili episcopo atque doctissimo Nicetae' : Niceta of Remesiana and episcopal leadership in fourth-century Illyricum / Carmen Angela Cvetković -- Controllers of crowds? Popular mobilization and episcopal leadership in late Roman North Africa / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira -- Keeping up appearances : Evaluations of imperial (in)visibility in Late Antiquity / Martijn Icks -- An imperial jellyfish? The emperor Arcadius and imperial leadership in the late fourth century AD / Meaghan McEvoy.
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In English, with one contribution in German.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-515-12404-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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