Contested monarchy : integrating the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Wienand, Johannes.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 530 pages : illustrations. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford studies in late antiquity
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| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 3 Datensätze |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction: The cloak of power : dressing and undressing the King / Johannes Wienand
- Part one. Administering the empire
- Domesticating the Senatorial elite : universal monarchy and transregional aristocracy in the fourth century AD / John Weisweiler
- The inflation of rank and privilege : regulating precedence in the fourth century AD / John Noel Dillon
- Ostentatious legislation : law and dynastic change, AD 364-365 / Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
- Emperors and generals in the fourth century / Doug Lee
- Gaul and the Roman emperors of the fourth century / Joachim Szidat
- Regional dynasties and imperial court / Michael Kulikowski
- Part two. Performing the monarchy
- Emperors, usurpers, and the city of Rome : performing power from Diocletian to Theodosius / Mark Humphries
- O tandem felix civili, Roma, Victoria! : civil war triumphs from Honorius to Constantine and back / Johannes Wienand
- ^Coping with the tyrant's faction : civil war amnesties and Christian discourses in the fourth century AD / Hartmut Leppin
- Pliny and Pacatus : past and present in imperial Panegyric / Christopher Kelly
- Born to be emperor : the principle of succession and the Roman monarchy / Henning Borm
- Performing justice : the penal code of Constantine the Great / Christian Reitzenstein-Ronning
- Part three. Balancing religious change
- Speaking of power : Christian redefinition of the imperial role in the fourth century / Harold Drake
- Constantine, Rome, and the Christians / Bruno Bleckmann
- Constantine and the Tyche of Constantinople / Noel Lenski
- A vain quest for unity : creeds and political (dis)integration in the reign of Constantius II / Steffen Diefenbach
- The challenge of religious violence : imperial ideology and policy in the fourth century / Johannes Hahn
- ^Christian faith, ancient writers and daily life : the impact of Christianity at the end of the fourth century / Rita Lizzi Testa
- Epilogue: The Empire's golden shade : icons of sovereignty in an age of transition / Johannes Wienand
- Index locorum.
