Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD
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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD
About this book
In this book, Muriel Moser investigates the relationship between the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II (AD 312–361) and the senators of Constantinople and Rome. She examines and contextualizes the integration of the social elites of Rome and the Eastern provinces into the imperial system and demonstrates their increased importance for the maintenance of imperial rule in response to political fragility and fragmentation. An in-depth analysis of senatorial careers and imperial legislation is combined with a detailed assessment of the political context - shared rule, the suppression of usurpations, Constantius' use of Constantine's memory. Using a wide range of literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and legal sources, some of which are as yet unpublished, this volume produces significant new readings of the history of the senates in Rome and Constantinople, of the construction of imperial rule and of historical change in Late Antiquity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I A Unified Roman Empire (ad 312–337)
- Part II Ruling the East (ad 337–350)
- Part III Ruler of Rome and Constantinople (ad 350–361)
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Roman Senators in Office in Asia and Syria, 275–305
- Appendix B: Senatorial Posts in the Eastern Administration (Oriens) under Constantine, 324–337
- Appendix C: The Higher Ranking Senatorial Administration, 337–349
- Appendix D: The Higher Ranking Eastern Senatorial Administration in the East (Illyricum and Oriens), 350–361
- Appendix E: The Expanded Lower Ranking Senatorial Administration in the East (Illyricum and Oriens), 350–361
- Appendix F: Notes on the Praetorships of 361
- Bibliography
- Index