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This book examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it examines continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian.
List of contents
- Introduction: Connecting Courts
- Part I: Ritual and Spatial Dynamics
- 1: Christoph Michels: Great King or civilis princeps? Monarchical Ideals and Daily Interaction in the Reign of Antoninus Pius
- 2: Christian Rollinger: Changing the Guard: Guard Units and Roman State Ceremonial in the First to the Fourth Century
- 3: Verena Jaeschke and Caillan Davenport: Cities, Palaces, and the Tetrarchic Imperial Courts
- 4: Audrey Becker: The Court in Constantinople Facing the Death of the Emperor
- Part II: Individual and Community at Court
- 5: Benjamin Kelly: Was the Roman Imperial Court an 'Emotional Community'?
- 6: Jill Harries: Jurists as Courtiers from Augustus to Justinian
- 7: Kevin Feeney: Court Construction and Regime Change in the Mid-Fourth Century
- 8: Meaghan McEvoy: Representatives and Co-Rulers: Sharing the Imperial Limelight: The Age of the Magister Militum
- 9: Anja Busch: Representatives and Co-Rulers: Imperial Women and the Court in Late Antiquity
- Part III: The Politics of Access
- 10: Fabian Schulz: Dynamics of Power: The Nestorian Controversy, the Council of Beyond the Veil: Athanasius at the Court of Constans
- 11: Daniëlle Slootjes: Dynamics of Power: The Nestorian Controversy, the Council of Ephesus of 431, and the Eastern Imperial Court
- 12: Martijn Icks: Splendid Isolation: Secluded Emperors and the Spectre of 'Oriental' Despotism
- 13: Caillan Davenport: Envisioning Audiences at the Roman Imperial Court
- Part IV: Comparative Perspectives
- 14: Caillan Davenport and Meaghan McEvoy: The Evolution of the Roman Imperial Court in Historical Context
- Bibliography
About the author
Caillan Davenport is Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at The Australian National University. He was educated at the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford before holding posts at Queensland, Macquarie University, and ANU. He has received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. He is the author of A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (2019), which won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize.
Meaghan McEvoy is Senior Lecturer in History at The Australian National University. She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and the University of Oxford, and has held fellowships at the British School at Rome and Dumbarton Oaks. Prior to joining ANU, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (Oxford), an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (Frankfurt), and a Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Macquarie University. She is the author of Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of special editions of the journals Antiquité Tardive and the Journal of Late Antiquity.
Summary
This book examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it examines continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian.
