Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty

Usherwood, Rebecca

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“…pp. 60-65;Usherwood 2022). 17 Ramskold notices the subsequent minting with military themes (in particular, «GLORIA EXERCITUS»; ca.…”

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«Ipse Perspicis Scilicet»: The Relation between Army and Religion in Constantinian Propaganda

Encinas

2023

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This study aims to explore the connection between religious and military spheres in Constantinian propaganda. The extensive use of propaganda and the notorious public discourse which involves the dynamics of power during Late Antiquity show how religion and the military played a key role. This principle reaches a singular meaning in the case of emperor Constantine I. To this extent, this paper considers several kinds of sources, which include legal, literary, and numismatic, among others. An analysis of the political uses of imperial constitutions by the emperor (especially CTh 7.20.2) can be of particular interest in order to address the ideas of self-representation and the politics of legitimation. Ultimately, the paper highlights the importance of imperial propaganda in Later Roman society, as well as the transformations in Constantine’s public discourse, where the connection between army and religion shows an evolution from the previous ways of understanding imperial power and where the bond of the ruler with a supreme divinity is a central issue.

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“…pp. 60-65;Usherwood 2022). 17 Ramskold notices the subsequent minting with military themes (in particular, «GLORIA EXERCITUS»; ca.…”

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«Ipse Perspicis Scilicet»: The Relation between Army and Religion in Constantinian Propaganda

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Division of Empire

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2024

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Constantine the Great died on 22 May ad 337. He left behind three sons, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman empire, and how to divide it between them. This book follows the lives of the sons from the death of their father and traces how they first shared the empire as a triarchy, until Constantine II was killed by his brother Constans in the civil war of 340, and after that as a diarchy, until Constans was murdered by a usurper in 350. It also tackles the question of division. It is well known that the Roman empire came to be divided into eastern and western halves in 395; what is less known is that this was the culmination of a great series of divisions and reunifications stretching across the fourth century. Division was a process, rather than an event, and it is a process that has received little attention in scholarship. This book uses the power-sharing of the sons of Constantine as a case study for division, and how it worked in practice. Constantius was the last man standing of Constantine’s sons, and reunified the empire under the rule of a sole Augustus, like his father. However, the cracks were already starting to show. The reunification of the empire proved to be a failure, and this book traces the threads of Constantinian division as the empire ossified into separate halves.

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Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty

Cited by 13 publications

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«Ipse Perspicis Scilicet»: The Relation between Army and Religion in Constantinian Propaganda

«Ipse Perspicis Scilicet»: The Relation between Army and Religion in Constantinian Propaganda

Books Received 72.2

Division of Empire

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