Justinianus Eponymus: Überlegungen zur letzten Glanzzeit kaiserlicher Namensverleihungen an Städte
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Max Ritter
Abstract
The emperor Justinian’s (527-565) penchant for naming institutional bodies after himself is a well-known feature of his reign - not only to modern scholarship but already for his contemporaries. The present study takes a closer look at the cities which were conferred the name of Justinian and Theodora since it may shed light on the emperor’s vision for the empire and his relations to the cities. The study sets off with an investigation of the various contexts, incentives and initiators for the grant of Justinian’s appellation to the cities. In brief, the confer of imperial epithets concerned the relation between the emperor and his subjects, who petitioned with him for this honour and received his name as a token of benevolence. The emperor’s favour conveyed power, and those below him strove to get his attention. In passing, the study also considers the longevity of the imperial eponyms. They did not usually stick in the subsequent centuries, partly because there were far too many cities named after the couple than was handy for the central administration, but also because the eponyms lost their function in the course of time.
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- Inhalt
- Siglenverzeichnis
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- Heraclius Constantine III – Emperor of Byzantium (613–641)
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- Islamicate alchemy in Greek letters on the first page of Marcianus graecus 299
- The silk industry around Naupaktos and its implications
- II. ABTEILUNG
- Pauline Allen / Bronwen Neil. Greek and Latin letters in Late Antiquity. The Christianisation of a literary form
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- Nachrichten
- Totentafel
- Nachrufe. Athanasios Kambylis (9. 1. 1928 – 20. 9. 2021), von Ioannis Vassis — 391 Benjamin Hendrickx (24 July 1939 – 8 July 2021)
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Siglenverzeichnis
- I. Abteilung
- On the toponymics of the Great Palace of Constantinople: the Daphne
- Late Roman emperorship in Constantinople: embodiment and ‘unbodiment’ of Christian virtues
- Heraclius Constantine III – Emperor of Byzantium (613–641)
- The Arab conquest in Byzantine historical memory: the long view
- Allegorie und Lob der Physik: Das Proömium der Paraphrase des Theodoros Metochites zu naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften des Aristoteles
- A list of village payments and the bouleutic career of Theodoros
- Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from Cappadocia: lead seals from Kırşehir with a unique overstruck example
- “A statue of bronze, by which times of old used to honor men of rare example”: Materials of honorific statues in Late Antiquity
- Textkritik im Dienste der Wahrheitsfindung? Das VI. Ökumenische Konzil (680/81) und seine Fälschungsnachweise
- Justinianus Eponymus: Überlegungen zur letzten Glanzzeit kaiserlicher Namensverleihungen an Städte
- Islamicate alchemy in Greek letters on the first page of Marcianus graecus 299
- The silk industry around Naupaktos and its implications
- II. ABTEILUNG
- Pauline Allen / Bronwen Neil. Greek and Latin letters in Late Antiquity. The Christianisation of a literary form
- Nicholas Drocourt / Élisabeth Malamut (eds.). La diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (ve–xve s.)
- James Howard-Johnston. The last great war of antiquity
- Alex Metcalfe / Hervin Fernandez-Acevez / Marco Muresu (eds.). The making of medieval Sardinia
- David K. Pettegrew / William R. Karaher / Thomas W. Davis (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of early Christian archaeology
- Nachrichten
- Totentafel
- Nachrufe. Athanasios Kambylis (9. 1. 1928 – 20. 9. 2021), von Ioannis Vassis — 391 Benjamin Hendrickx (24 July 1939 – 8 July 2021)
