Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD

Description: Contested Monarchy offers a fresh survey of the role of the Roman monarch in a period of significant and enduring change. Wienand, Johannes List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Map of the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century; Introduction; 1. The Cloak of Power: Dressing and Undressing the King; Johannes Wienand; Part One Administering the Empire ; 2. Domesticating the Senatorial Elite: Universal Monarchy and Imperial Aristocracy in the Fourth Century AD; John Weisweiler; 3. The Inflation of Rank and Privilege: Regulating Precedence in the Fourth Century AD; John Noel Dillon; 4. Ostentatious Legislation: Law and Dynastic Change, AD 364-365; Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner; 5. Emperors and Generals in the Fourth Century; Doug Lee; 6. Gaul and the Roman Emperors of the Fourth Century; Joachim Szidat; 7. Regional Dynasties and Imperial Court; Michael Kulikowski; Part Two Performing the Monarchy ; 8. Emperors, Usurpers, and the City of Rome: Performing Power from Diocletian to Theodosius; Mark Humphries; 9. O tandem felix civili, Roma, victoria! Civil War Triumphs From Honorius to Constantine and Back; Johannes Wienand; 10. Coping with the Tyrant's Faction: Civil War Amnesties and Christian Discourses in the Fourth Century AD; Hartmut Leppin; 11. Pliny and Pacatus: Past and Present in Imperial Panegyric; Christopher Kelly; 12. Born to be Emperor: The Principle of Succession and the Roman Monarchy; Henning Borm; 13. Performing Justice: The Penal Code of Constantine the Great; Christian Reitzenstein-Ronning; Part Three Balancing Religious Change ; 14. Speaking of Power: Christian Redefinition of the Imperial Role in the Fourth Century; Harold Drake; 15. Constantine, Rome, and the Christians; Bruno Bleckmann; 16. Constantine and the Tyche of Constantinople; Noel Lenski; 17. A Vain Quest for Unity: Creeds and Political (Dis)Integration in the Reign of Constantius II; Steffen Diefenbach; 18. The Challenge of Religious Violence: Imperial Ideology and Policy in the Fourth Century; Johannes Hahn; 19. Christian Faith, Ancient Writers and Daily Life: The Impact of Christianity at the End of the Fourth Century; Rita Lizzi Testa; Epilogue; ; 20. The Empire's Golden Shade: Icons of Sovereignty in an Age of Transition; Johannes Wienand; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum

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