Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II - Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome Constantinople in Fourth

Explores the political importance of senators for the maintenance of imperial rule under Constantine I and his son Constantius II.

List of contents

Part I. A Unified Roman Empire (AD 312-337): 1. Constantine and the Senate of Rome; 2. Constantine's eastern Roman empire; Part II. Ruling the East (AD 337-350): 3. The senatorial officials of Constantius II; 4. Remembering Constantine in Antioch and Constantinople; Part III. Ruler of Rome and Constantinople (AD 350-361): 5. Crisis and innovation: between Magnentius and Gallus; 6. Romanizing Constantinople: the creation of a second senate; 7. A Roman triumph: Constantius II in Rome.

About the author

Muriel Moser is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main. Her research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Graeco-Roman world from 100 BC to AD 400. Her publications include a themed volume of Antiquité Tardive called 'Imperial Presence in Late Antique Rome (2nd to 7th Centuries AD)' (co-edited with M. McEvoy, 2017), as well as Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC to 100 AD) (2017, co-edited with T. M. Dijkstra, I. N. I. Kuin and D. Weidgenannt).

Summary

Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great. Provides new insights into imperial relations to the senates in Constantinople and Rome and the construction of late antique imperial rule and ideology.

Product details

• Authors: Muriel Moser, Muriel (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Mai Moser, Muriel (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main) Moser, MOSER MURIEL
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108481014
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48101-4
• No. of pages: 434
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Rome, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, European history: the Romans, 4th century, c 300 to c 399