Helena Augusta: mother of the empire
"Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources,...
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| Summary: | "Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources, from textual and epigraphical to visual, and an array of archaeological insights from the places Helena lived at or visited, this book instead investigates Helena in the round, taking seriously the ruptures in her life course and her changing positions within the imperial and female networks of her time. The book follows Helena's life, the majority of which was spent in the third century and during the period of the tetrarchy, and explores the different ways in which she was commemorated after her death, up to the late sixth century. It wrestles Helena's historical significance back from medieval legends, to demonstrate the development and purpose of her role within Constantinian politics and to chart her meandering impact on the image and behavior of the Christian empress in the late Roman world"-- |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 394 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Timeline of the Constantinian, Valentinian, and Theodosian Dynasties Dramatis Personae Family Tree Maps ix xiii xv xxi xxvi xxix Introduction 1 The Case for (Chronological) Biography Writing Helenas Life Forwards: OfPlaces, Gaps, and Relationships Helena, Dynasty, and Power 2 6 9 PARTI: EXTRA (C. 248-C. 289) 1. On the Frontiers Demographics Helena and the “Crisis of the Third Century” Meeting Constantius 2. Weather Eye on the Horizon Legalities Helena at Naissus and Salona Helena’s Tetrarchy 15 15 22 25 34 35 39 49 PARTII: OFF STAGE (C. 289~C. 317) 3. Sister Act Lost Girl: Theodora Fausta’s Nose Pruning the Tree Waiting in the Wings, Becoming Christian? 4. The Necklace Affair The Tomb at Sarkamén Divine Mothers The Augusta in the East Fair Game: Empresses as Prey 55 57 65 72 75 80 82 87 96 106
viii CONTENTS PART III: CENTER STAGE (C. 317-C. 329) 5. Keeping Up Appearances The Road to Thessalonica: A Wedding, a Conspiracy, and a War The Augusta Double Fausta, Superstar 6. Roman Holiday Palace Life Helena and the Constantinian Churches in Rome New Look 7. Four Deaths and an Anniversary Murders intheFamily 111 113 122 132 140 143 158 168 Becoming Genetrix 178 182 194 8. From Here to Eternity 204 The Traveling Empress: Conflicting Portraits Helena, the Pilgrim? On the Road A New Jezebel Empresses in the Holy Land 206 208 214 224 229 PART IV: CURTAIN AND ENCORES (C. 329-C. 600) 9. Burying an Empress Final Honors Rebranching the Tree Coming through Slaughter 247 250 262 266 10. Silence of the Empress Extending Helena: Constantina Burying Empresses, One More Time Countering Helena: Justina 274 11. New Model Empress Ambrose’s Helena 309 Reviving Helena’s Look: Flaccilla and Thermantia Reviving Helena in Action Emulating Helena: Galla Piacidia and Eudocia A “New Helena” in Name: Pulcheria Being Helena: Radegund Epilogue Ancient Sources Modern Studies Index 277 291 298 309 317 321 328 334 339 347 349 355 383
In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire, Julia Hillner traces Helena’s story through her life’s peaks, which generated beautiful imperial artwork, entertaining legends as well as literary outrage. But Helena Augusta also pays careful attention to the frequently violent disruptions in Helena’s life course and in her commemoration—disruptions that were created by her nearest male relatives. |
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