Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity

Representation and Reality
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40769-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Impact of Empire

The collective volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity: Representation and Reality, edited by Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw and Fabian Schulz, offers new insights into the political culture of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., where the emperor’s favour was paramount. The articles examine how people gained, maintained, or lost imperial favour. The contributors approach this theme by studying processes of interpersonal influence and competition through the lens of modern sociological models. Taking into account both political reality and literary representation, this volume will have much to offer students of late-antique history and/or literature as well as those interested in the politics of pre-modern monarchical states.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choda, Kamil Cyprian

Sterk de Leeuw, Maurits

Schulz, Fabian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 2: Competition at the Late-Antique Court: Structures and Effects

1 “The Greatest Glory Is Always Habitually Subject to Envy”—Competition and Conflict over Closeness to the Emperor at the Roman Court in the 4th Century

Isabelle Künzer

2 The Importance of Being Splendid: Competition, Ceremonial, and the Semiotics of Status at the Court of the Late Roman Emperors (4th–6th Centuries)

Christian Rollinger

3 The venatio in the Emperor’s Presence? The consistorium and the Military Men of the Late Roman Empire in the West

Vedran Bileta

Part 3: Watch Your Words: the Role of Language in Gaining or Losing Imperial Favour

4 Symmachus’ Epistolary Influence: the Rehabiliation of Nicomachus Flavianus through Recommendation Letters

Bruno Marien

5 Losing the Empress’s Favour: on the Margins of John Chrysostom’s Homily 48 on Matthew

Kamil Cyprian Choda

6 Buying Imperial Favour: Cyril of Alexandria’s Blessings

Maurits Sterk de Leeuw

Attack as the Best Defence: Resisting Unwelcome Influence

7 Kept in the Dark, Narratives of Imperial Seclusion in Late Antiquity

Martijn Icks

8 Jovian, an Emperor Who Did Not Bow to Heretics and Infidels? A Critical Reading of the Petitiones Arianorum

Fabian Schulz

9 Divining to Gain (or Lose) the Favour of Usurpers: the Case of Pamprepius of Panopolis (440–484)

Regina Fichera

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kamil Cyprian Choda is preparing his Ph.D. in Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He investigates how 5th-century Christian historiography represented the influence exercised on the emperors by churchmen.

Maurits Sterk de Leeuw is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He is preparing a thesis on the political role of monks in late-antique Constantinople.

Fabian Schulz, Ph.D. (2010), is a Classicist and Ancient Historian, who, after working at the Free University of Berlin and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, joined the University of Tübingen as a senior researcher.

Contributors are: Vedran Bileta, Kamil Cyprian Choda, Regina Fichera, Martijn Icks, Isabelle Künzer, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw, Bruno Marien,
Christian Rollinger, Fabian Schulz.