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Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers...

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1. Verfasser: MacCormack, Sabine
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Schriftenreihe:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 26.
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Zusammenfassung:Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social, political, and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman w.
Beschreibung:Earlier versions of three chapters were presented as a Christian Gauss Seminar in Criticism, Princeton University, winter of 1994.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 258 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and indexes.
ISBN:9780520920279
0520920279
0585087105
9780585087108
9780520211872
0520211871

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