Gaining and losing imperial favour in late antiquity : : representation and reality / / edited by Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw, Fabian Schulz.

• Superior document: Impact of Empire ; Volume 36
• TeilnehmendeR: Choda, Kamil (Kamil Cyprian),; Leeuw, Maurits Sterk de,; Schulz, Fabian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; volume 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Competition at the Late-Antique Court: Structures and Effects -- “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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004411798
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw, Fabian Schulz.

The collective volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity: Representation and Reality, edited by Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw and Fabian Schulz, offers new insights into the political culture of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., where the emperor’s favour was paramount. The articles examine how people gained, maintained, or lost imperial favour. The contributors approach this theme by studying processes of interpersonal infl uence and competition through the lens of modern sociological models. Taking into account both political reality and literary representation, this volume will have much to offer students of late-antique history and/or literature as well as those interested in the politics of pre-modern monarchical states.