Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379–457)

Nuffelen, Peter Van

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“… 30 See in general: McEvoy 2013 and the essays in Kelly 2013b. Ceremonial: Diefenbach 1996: 43–60; Meier 2007: 142–58; Croke 2010: 255–7; Van Nuffelen 2012; Kelly 2013a; Gardiner 2013.…”

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Mirrors for Bureaucrats: Expectations of Christian Officials in the Theodosian Empire

Whelan

2018

J. Rom. Stud.

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This article tackles a relatively under-studied aspect of the Christianisation of the Roman aristocracy. It considers the influence of Christian norms on a key stage in the elite male life course: service to the state. Drawing on the letters of Isidore of Pelusium, Augustine of Hippo and Theodoret of Cyrrhus to imperial officials, this article argues that a Christian rhetoric of office-holding had developed across the Mediterranean by the first half of the fifth century. It traces these authors’ varying expectations of how the religious identities of elite Christian men would shape their political agency. Their letters demonstrate the diffusion of Christian political ideas within the imperial state — and the terms on which Christian affiliations and traditional public careers were understood to be compatible — under the Theodosian dynasty.

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“…406, a. 415; see too, Diefenbach 1996: 52; Croke 2010: 255–7; Van Nuffelen 2012: 191, 197; Kelly 2013a: at 221, 223–4.…”

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Mirrors for Bureaucrats: Expectations of Christian Officials in the Theodosian Empire

Whelan

2018

J. Rom. Stud.

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The Emperor, the People and Urban Violence in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

Greatrex¹

2020

Religious Violence in the Ancient World

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The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity

2023

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The volume examines the Roman imperial court as a social and cultural institution across six centuries between the reigns of Augustus (27 bc–ad 14) and Justinian (ad 527–65). The Principate (the early Roman Empire) and Late Antiquity (the late Roman Empire) are usually examined separately by scholars who specialize in one period or the other. This book brings together scholars of both phases of Roman history to analyse continuities and changes across the centuries, focusing on themes such as court ceremonial, imperial residences, systems of patronage, the roles of generals and women, and the relationship between the court and the church. A concluding essay sets the transformation of the Roman imperial court in historical context by comparing its development with other monarchical courts across Eurasia.

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Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379–457)

Cited by 27 publications

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Mirrors for Bureaucrats: Expectations of Christian Officials in the Theodosian Empire

Mirrors for Bureaucrats: Expectations of Christian Officials in the Theodosian Empire

The Emperor, the People and Urban Violence in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity

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