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Contested monarchy : integrating the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD / edited by Johannes Wienand.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in late antiquity.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in late antiquity
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monarchy--Rome--History.
- Monarchy.
- Emperors--Rome--History.
- Emperors.
- Christianity and politics--Rome--History.
- Christianity and politics.
- Social change--Rome--History.
- Social change.
- Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.
- Rome.
- Rome--Kings and rulers.
- Rome--Politics and government--284-476.
- Rome--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (553 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. During this period, the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on the emperor's mobility, on collegial or dynastic rule, and on the military resolution of internal political crises.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780197596081
- 0197596088
- 9780190201746
- 0190201746
- OCLC:
- 892245803
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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