Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_003
I. Künzer
{"title":"“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","authors":"I. Künzer","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125695615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_006
B. Marien
{"title":"Symmachus’ Epistolary Influence: the Rehabilitation of Nicomachus Flavianus through Recommendation Letters","authors":"B. Marien","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123660092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_007
K. Choda
{"title":"Losing the Empress’s Favour: on the Margins of John Chrysostom’s Homily 48 on Matthew","authors":"K. Choda","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126444060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_011
R. Fichera
{"title":"Divining to Gain (or Lose) the Favour of Usurpers: the Case of Pamprepius of Panopolis (440–484)","authors":"R. Fichera","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121875998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_010
F. Schulz
{"title":"Jovian, an Emperor Who Did Not Bow to Heretics and Infidels? A Critical Reading of the Petitiones Arianorum","authors":"F. Schulz","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133959006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_004
Christian Rollinger
{"title":"The Importance of Being Splendid: Competition, Ceremonial, and the Semiotics of Status at the Court of the Late Roman Emperors (4th–6th Centuries)","authors":"Christian Rollinger","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"75 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114148029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_005
Vedran Bileta
{"title":"The venatio in the Emperor’s Presence? The consistorium and the Military Men of the Late Roman Empire in the West","authors":"Vedran Bileta","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132832278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_008
Maurits Sterk de Leeuw
{"title":"Buying Imperial Favour: Cyril of Alexandria’s Blessings","authors":"Maurits Sterk de Leeuw","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"65 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114078977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004411791_009
M. Icks
This paper explores the role of imperial accessibility in late-antique panegyric and historiography, focusing on the late 4th and early 5th centuries. In particular, it discusses complaints about increased imperial seclusion in the works of Pacatus, Synesius, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Historia Augusta biographer, and others. These authors and orators developed the image of the princeps clausus: the aloof, secluded ruler who dwells at the heart of a highly ceremonious court and stands under the influence of malicious eunuchs. Although this image is highly exaggerated, it reflects genuine elite concerns. Whereas the “good” emperors of the Principate had been relatively accessible to members of the senatorial class, allowing them to compete for imperial favour and hence to gain power and status, the imperial court of Late Antiquity emphasized the social distance between the monarch and elite groups. At the same time, a new class of professional courtiers gained power and prestige from their proximity to the emperor. This prompted anxiety in senatorial aristocrats and other elites that their ties to the emperor were under pressure, potentially leading to a loss of influence and social status.
{"title":"Kept in the Dark: Narratives of Imperial Seclusion in Late Antiquity","authors":"M. Icks","doi":"10.1163/9789004411791_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411791_009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the role of imperial accessibility in late-antique panegyric and historiography, focusing on the late 4th and early 5th centuries. In particular, it discusses complaints about increased imperial seclusion in the works of Pacatus, Synesius, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Historia Augusta biographer, and others. These authors and orators developed the image of the princeps clausus: the aloof, secluded ruler who dwells at the heart of a highly ceremonious court and stands under the influence of malicious eunuchs. Although this image is highly exaggerated, it reflects genuine elite concerns. Whereas the “good” emperors of the Principate had been relatively accessible to members of the senatorial class, allowing them to compete for imperial favour and hence to gain power and status, the imperial court of Late Antiquity emphasized the social distance between the monarch and elite groups. At the same time, a new class of professional courtiers gained power and prestige from their proximity to the emperor. This prompted anxiety in senatorial aristocrats and other elites that their ties to the emperor were under pressure, potentially leading to a loss of influence and social status.","PeriodicalId":173980,"journal":{"name":"Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125359404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}