García Ruiz María Pilar, Quiroga Puertas Alberto J. (eds.) Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives

Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (Impact of Empire 40).What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other.Contributors are: Diederik Burgersdijk, María Victoria Escribano, María Pilar García Ruiz, Fabio Guidetti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas , Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz, Daniëlle Slootjes, Ignazio Tantillo, José B. Torres.María Pilar García Ruiz is Reader in Classics at the University of Navarra, Spain. She specializes in late antique literature, focusing in particular on Ammianus’ Res Gestae, the Panegyrici Latini collection and the emperor Julian’s writings.
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas is Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. His research interests lie primarily in late antique literature and rhetoric, topics about which he has published several papers and books.