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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Kruse, Marion
Titre(s) : The politics of Roman memory [Texte électronique] : from the fall of the Western Empire to the age of Justinian / Marion Kruse
Publication : Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
Collection : Empire and after
Lien à la collection : Empire and after (Online)
Note(s) : Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site,
viewed 29. Feb 2020).. - In English.
What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and
what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity for the inhabitants
of both east and west? How could an empire be Roman when it was, in fact, at war with
Rome? How did these issues motivate and shape historical constructions of Constantinople
as the New Rome? And how did the idea that a Roman empire could fall influence political
rhetoric in Constantinople? In The Politics of Roman Memory, Marion Kruse visits and
revisits these questions to explore 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 reimagine themselves not merely as Romans
but as the only Romans worthy of the name.The Politics of Roman Memory challenges
conventional narratives of the transformation of the classical world, the supremacy
of Christian identity in late antiquity, and the low literary merit of writers in
this period. Kruse reconstructs a coherent intellectual movement in Constantinople
that redefined Romanness in a Constantinopolitan idiom through the manipulation of
Roman historical memory. Debates over the historical parameters of Romanness drew
the attention of figures as diverse as Zosimos-long dismissed as a cranky pagan outlier,
but here rehabilitated-and the emperor Justinian, as well as the major authors of
Justinian's reign, such as Prokopios, Ioannes Lydos, and Jordanes. Finally, by examining
the narratives embedded in Justinian's laws, Kruse demonstrates the importance of
historical memory to the construction of imperial authority
Sujet(s) : Civilisation -- Rome -- Mémoire collective -- Aspect politique
Civilisation -- Rome -- Historiographie
Orient et Occident
Rome -- 476 (Fin de l'empire d'Occident)
Indice(s) Dewey :
909.098 21 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Atlantique (région)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812296471. - ISBN 0812296478
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458309161
Notice n° :
FRBNF45830916
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
