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1 online resource (xvii, 420 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge classical studies |
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I A Unified Roman Empire (ad 312-337); Chapter 1 Constantine and the Senate of Rome; Roman Senators in a Reunited Empire; Forging Political Alliances; Late Tokens of Favour; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Constantine's Eastern Roman Empire; Recruiting Local Support in the East; A Constantinian Senate in Constantinople?; A New Imperial Hierarchy? The Comites; Constantine's Eastern Roman Empire; Conclusion |
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Part II Ruling the East (ad 337-350)Chapter 3 The Senatorial Officials of Constantius II; A Separated Empire?; The Senatorial Officials of Constantius II: 337 to 350; Harnessing Roman Senators; Imperial Competition over Rome?; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Remembering Constantine in Antioch and Constantinople; Antioch; Promoting Constantinople; Praetorships in Constantinople; Rewriting Imperial Funerals; Good Son and Senior Augustus; Conclusion; Part III Ruler of Rome and Constantinople (ad 350-361); Chapter 5 Crisis and Innovation; Usurpations in the West; The Eastern Guard |
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A Senate in ConstantinopleStatues of Loyalty; Defender of the Constantinian Heritage; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Romanizing Constantinople; The Emergence of an Eastern Cursus Honorum; Expansion and Division of the Senatorial Order; Praetorships; A New Traditional Senatorial Aristocracy; A Second Roman Senate in Constantinople; Urban Investments; Legitimizing Revolution; Conclusion; Chapter 7 A Roman Triumph; Senatorial Policies; Celebrating Constantius in Rome; Roman Religions; Reassurances in Rome; Surpassing Constantine in Rome; Conclusion; Conclusion |
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Appendix A: Roman Senators in Office in Asia and Syria, 275-305Appendix B: Senatorial Posts in the Eastern Administration (Oriens) under Constantine, 324-337; Appendix C: The Higher Ranking Senatorial Administration, 337-349; Appendix D: The Higher Ranking Eastern Senatorial Administration in the East (Illyricum and Oriens), 350-361; Appendix E: The Expanded Lower Ranking Senatorial Administration in the East (Illyricum and Oriens), 350-361; Appendix F: Notes on the Praetorships of 361; Bibliography; I Primary Sources; II Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
In this book, Muriel Moser investigates the relationship between the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II (AD 312-361) and the senators of Constantinople and Rome. She examines and contextualizes the integration of the social elites of Rome and the Eastern provinces into the imperial system and demonstrates their increased importance for the maintenance of imperial rule in response to political fragility and fragmentation. An in-depth analysis of senatorial careers and imperial legislation is combined with a detailed assessment of the political context - shared rule, the suppression of usurpations, Constantius' use of Constantine's memory. Using a wide range of literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and legal sources, some of which are as yet unpublished, this volume produces significant new readings of the history of the senates in Rome and Constantinople, of the construction of imperial rule and of historical change in Late Antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Constantius II, Emperor of Rome, 317-361.
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| SUBJECT |
Constantius II, Emperor of Rome, 317-361 fast |
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Rome. Senate.
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Rome. Senate fast |
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Nobility -- Rome
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Nobility
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Rome -- History -- Constantius II, 337-361.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115164
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Rome -- History -- Constantine I, the Great, 306-337.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115161
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108646086 |
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1108646085 |
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9781108576123 |
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1108576125 |
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