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Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Abbreviations 9 Notes on Contributors 10 Introduction 13 Part 1 Competition at the Late-Antique Court: Structures and Effects 27 Chapter 1 “The Greatest Glory Is Always Habitually Subject to Envy”—Competition and Conflict over Closeness to the Emperor at the Roman Court in the 4th Century 29 Chapter 2 The Importance of Being Splendid: Competition, Ceremonial, and the Semiotics of Status at the Court of the Late Roman Emperors (4th–6th Centuries) 48 Chapter 3 The venatio in the Emperor’s Presence? The consistorium and the Military Men of the Late Roman Empire in the West 85 Part 2 Watch Your Words: the Role of Language in Gaining or Losing Imperial Favour 115 Chapter 4 Symmachus’ Epistolary Influence: the Rehabilitation of Nicomachus Flavianus through Recommendation Letters 117 Chapter 5 Losing the Empress’s Favour: on the Margins of John Chrysostom’s Homily 48 on Matthew 137 Chapter 6 Buying Imperial Favour: Cyril of Alexandria’s Blessings 163 Part 3 Attack as the Best Defence: Resisting Unwelcome Influence 183 Chapter 7 Kept in the Dark: Narratives of Imperial Seclusion in Late Antiquity 185 Chapter 8 Jovian, an Emperor Who Did Not Bow to Heretics and

Author

Choda, Kamil Cyprian; Sterk de Leeuw, Maurits; Schulz, Fabian

Published

2019

Language

EN