Politics of Roman Memory - From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian

Marion Kruse teaches classics at the University of Cincinnati.

List of contents

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction. Roman History After the Fall of Rome

Chapter 1. New Romans in the Age of Anastasius

Chapter 2. Mythistory and Cultural Identity in New Rome

Chapter 3. Administrative Reform and Republican History

Chapter 4. The Abolition of the Consulship

Chapter 5. The Fall of Rome in the Age of Justinian

Chapter 6. Apostolic History and the Church of (New) Rome

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Selected Chronology of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD

Appendix 2. Ordinations of the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Index locorum

Acknowledgments

About the author

Marion Kruse

Summary

In The Politics of Roman Memory, Marion Kruse explores the process by which the emperors, historians, jurists, antiquarians, and poets of the eastern Roman Empire employed both history and mythologized versions of the same to come to terms with the political realities of the late fifth and sixth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Kruse
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780812251623
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5162-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Empire and After; Empire and After
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book