Research Catalog

Title

Political memory and the Constantinian dynasty : fashioning disgrace / Rebecca Usherwood.

Author

Usherwood, Rebecca

Publication

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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Details

Description

xvii, 350 pages : illustrations (some colour); 22 cm.

Summary

This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fourth century to argue that the deconstruction of political legitimacy should be viewed, first and foremost, as a collective phenomenon, the result of the actions of a diverse range of people responding to political change. It also challenges many positivist and teleological narratives of the Age of Constantine. Shifting the focus from the emperor and his sons onto their rivals and opponents, the Constantinian dynasty is placed back into the messy and ambiguous political environment from which it emerged. .

Series Statement

New approaches to Byzantine history and culture

Uniform Title

New approaches to Byzantine history and culture.

Subject

• 284-476
• Collective memory > Political aspects > Rome
• Politics and government
• Rome > History > Constantines, 306-363
• Rome > Politics and government > 284-476
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-339) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Political Memory, Disgrace, and Oblivion -- Discourses of Disgrace -- Central Direction and Local Action -- The Materiality of Disgrace -- References -- 2. Maximum -- The Fall of Maximian -- Disgrace and Lconoclasm -- Maximian's Disgrace in Constantine's Territories -- Civil War and the Spectre of Maximian -- Maximian's Disgrace in the Wider Roman World -- Rehabilitating Maximian? -- Conclusion: The Blurred Lines of Disgrace -- References -- 3. Licinius -- Licinius and Constantine -- Civil War and a New Alliance -- Licinius and the Law -- The Disgrace of Licinius -- Conclusion: The Emperor Vanishes -- References -- 4. Crispus -- Crispus and Constantine -- Silence and Scandal: Crispus' Downfall in Ancient Accounts -- Treason and Condemnation: Modern Interpretations -- Crispus as a Disgraced Figure -- Crispus and the Licinii -- Crispus and the Constantinian Family -- Conclusion: Constantinian Disgrace -- References -- 5. Magnentius -- Magnentius S̀upporters -- The Disgrace of Constans -- The Disgrace of Magnentius -- Conclusion: The Limits of Disgrace -- References -- 6. Epilogue -- References.

Call Number

JFD 22-2025

ISBN

• 3030879291
• 9783030879297

OCLC

1265456919

Author

Usherwood, Rebecca, author.

Title

Political memory and the Constantinian dynasty : fashioning disgrace / Rebecca Usherwood.

Publisher

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New approaches to Byzantine history and culture

New approaches to Byzantine history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-339) and index.

Chronological Term

284-476

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030879303

Research Call Number

JFD 22-2025