The politics of Roman memory : from the fall of the Western Empire to the age of Justinian / Marion Kruse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruse, Marion, Author.

Series:

Empire and after.

Empire and After

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Political aspects--Rome.

Memory.

Byzantine Empire--History--To 527--Historiography.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--History--Justinian I, 527-565--Historiography.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography.

Rome.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Roman influences.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In The Politics of Roman Memory, Marion Kruse explores the process by which the emperors, historians, jurists, antiquarians, and poets of the eastern Roman Empire employed both history and mythologized versions of the same to come to terms with the political realities of the late fifth and sixth centuries.

Contents:

Cover

The Politics of Roman Memory

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction. Roman History After the Fall of Rome

Chapter 1. New Romans in the Age of Anastasius

Chapter 2. Mythistory and Cultural Identity in New Rome

Chapter 3. Administrative Reform and Republican History

Chapter 4. The Abolition of the Consulship

Chapter 5. The Fall of Rome in the Age of Justinian

Chapter 6. Apostolic History and the Church of (New) Rome

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Selected Chronology of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD

Appendix 2. Ordinations of the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780812296471

0812296478

OCLC:

1134074948