Sökning: "emperor"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade ordet emperor.

  1. 1. Dazzling Dining : Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy

    Författare :Simon Malmberg; Averil Cameron; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Banquets; emperor; legitimation; rituals; ideology; propaganda; Domus Augustana; Great Palace; triclinium; Rome; Constantinople; virtues; Christianity; precedence; consensus; tradition; court; late antiquity.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how banquets hosted by the Roman emperor were vehicles of imperial propaganda and expressions of the ruler’s political legitimation. The focus will be on the banquets held in the palace of Domus Augustana in Rome and in the Great Palace in Constantinople during the period AD 330-580. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Honorius and the city of Rome : Authority and legitimacy in late antiquity

    Författare :Hans Lejdegård; Arja Karivieri; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Emperor; Rome; relationship; legitimacy; Attalus; power; usurpation; senate; Alaric; propaganda; Honorius; adventus; consensus universorum; late antiquity.; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the importance of the concept of Roma et Augustus, the close relationship between the Roman emperor and the city of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, who reigned in AD 395-423. Rome and the emperor were two of the most important and conspicuous manifestations of Roman civilisation and power, around which much of late antique ideology of authority and legitimacy was formulated. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Imperial Freedmen and Roman Society : A study on the social standing of imperial freedmen as expressed in literary and epigraphic sources in the early Roman Empire

    Författare :Lisa Hagelin; Gerd Haverling; Gunhild Vidén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; imperial freedmen; emperor; status; social history; early empire; Pliny; Tacitus; Seneca; Latin epigraphy; Rome; Latin language; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses the imperial freedmen’s standing in Roman society as it is expressed in literary and epigraphic sources. It has often been assumed that the traditional elite had a general negative attitude towards this group, and previous scholars have interpreted the social standing of the imperial freedmen very differently due to the discrepancy between the legal status and the social status of these freedmen. LÄS MER

  5. 4. De mörka labyrinterna : Gotiken i litteratur, film, musik och rollspel

    Författare :Mattias Fyhr; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gotik; gotisk roman; gotisk litteratur; skräckromantik; skräck; Inger Edelfeldt; Mare Kandre; Per Hagman; Alexander Ahndoril; Nikanor Teratologen; Magnus Dahlström; Bruno K Öijer; Åsa Grennvall; Horace Walpole; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Gregory Lewis; Mary Shelley; Charles Maturin; Edgar Allan Poe; Lovecraft; Bret Easton Ellis; Neil Gaiman; Lovecraft; The Cure; Cortex; The Damned; Emperor; Fields of the Nephilim; Freddie Wadling; Joy Division; Sisters of Mercy; Lucio Fulci goth; vampyrer; monster; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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  7. 5. "...achieved nothing worthy of memory" : Coinage and authority in the Roman empire c. AD 260-295

    Författare :Ragnar Hedlund; Mats Cullhed; Ursula Kampmann; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Roman empire; soldier-emperor; crisis; propaganda; language of images; authority; legitimacy; communication; coinage; coin-imagery; war; military; court; Rome; regionalization; consecration; dynasty; divine sanction; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how the Roman emperors c. AD. 260–295 attempt at maintaining their power-bases through legitimation of their claims to power, with reference to various potentially powerful groups of society, such as the military, the inhabitants of the provinces and the senate in Rome. LÄS MER