{"product_id":"emperors-and-emperorship-in-late-antiquity-images-and-narratives-9789004446908","title":"Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K.  and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.  The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Alle neun Beiträge sind auf jeweils eigene Weise in Form voneinander unabhängiger Studien Fragen der kaiserlichen Repräsentation im vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr. gewidmet und versuchen so, „to disantagle [statt richtig: disentangle] the complex web of propagandistic formats that converge in the figure of the emperor in order to show how these formats were meant to create an ideological wardrobe at the service of each emperor“ (S. 8). Somit sind sie willkommene Bereicherungen zu einem wichtigen Forschungsfeld.‘ Ulrich Lambrecht, in Plekos vol.24.S: 13-23 (2022)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures   Contributors   Introduction    María Pilar García Ruiz and Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas      Part 1: Constantine   1 Emperors and Tyrants in the Fourth Century. Outlining a New Portrait of the Ruler and of His Role through Images and Words    Ignazio Tantillo      2 Constantine’s Arch: A Reassessment in the Light of Textual and Material Evidence    Diederik Burgersdijk      3 Purple and the Depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and Other Contemporaneous Panegyrical Works    José B. Torres      Part 2: Julian   4 The Caesars: A Myth on Julian’s Emperorship    María Pilar García Ruiz      5 Cosmic Warnings and Imperial Responses: Ammianus’ Astronomical Excursuses    Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz      Part 3: From the Valentinians to Theodosius   6 Between Expressionism and Classicism: Stylistic Choices as Means of Legitimisation in Late Fourth-Century Imperial Portraits    Fabio Guidetti      7 The Letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): Two Imperial Images in Conflict    María Victoria Escribano      8 Toying with Theodosius: The Manipulation of the Imperial Image in the Sources of the Riot of the Statues    Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas      9 Managing the Empire while Securing the Throne: Theodosius I and the Administrative Structures of His Empire    Daniëlle Slootjes      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210814021975,"sku":"9789004446908","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emperors-and-emperorship-in-late-antiquity-images-and-narratives-9789004446908","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}