[H-verkko] Helsinki, Michele Salzman esitelmöi keisari Konstantinuksesta Helsingissä

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Michele Salzman esitelmöi keisari Konstantinuksesta Helsingissä

Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40
21.3.2013 klo 16:15
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Professori Michele Renee Salzman (University of California at Riverside)
vierailee Helsingin yliopistossa ja pitää esitelmän:

“Pagans and Christians in Constantine’s Rome”

Aika: 21.3.2013, klo 16.15

Paikka: Maailman kulttuurien laitos, Klassillisen filologian seminaarihuone,
Unioninkatu 40 (huomaa käyntiosoite: Metsätalo, Fabianinkatu 39, A-siipi, 2.
krs, käynti 3. kerroksen kautta)

Professori Salzman on ehdottomasti yksi myöhäisen Rooman historian
merkittävimpiä tutkijoita. Hän on julkaissut mm. tutkimuksia kalentereista ja
aikakäsityksistä myöhäisantiikissa (The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the
Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, University California Press, 1990) ja
roomalaisen aristokratian kristillistymisestä 300-luvulla (The Making of a
Christian Aristocracy, Harvard University Press, 2002). Vastikään Salzman on
julkaissut Michael Robertsin kanssa käännöksen ja kommentaarin Symmachuksen
kirjeistä (The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1,Brill 2012) sekä toimittaa teosta
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World.

Lisätietoja antaa: Maijastina Kahlos, Tutkijakollegium, Helsingin yliopisto,
maijastina.kahlos(at)helsinki.fi

Esitelmän abstrakti

“Pagans and Christians in Constantine’s Rome”

After the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312, the emperor Constantine entered
Rome and faced the senate and people even as he revealed his support for his new
religion, Christianity. Constantine’s relations to the senate and Rome’s
resident senatorial aristocracy in this period and throughout his rule (312-337)
lie at the heart of discussions of the conversion of the empire, and have
consequently attracted a good deal of scholarly attention, but not consensus.
Some scholars have proposed that a strong pagan senate confronting an
aggressively Christianizing ruler naturally led to overt political conflict;
others have argued that an acquiescent pagan senate responding to a tolerant or
intentionally ambiguous emperor meant there was no political conflict. As I will
show, each component of this narrative – conflict, imperial efforts at
Christianization, and senatorial power – requires independent consideration.
Such an analysis, carried out in this paper, leads me to propose a different
model of this relationship. Rising senatorial prestige and administrative
reforms of the senate and senatorial order undertaken by Constantine made the
senate less than willing to take an overt, political stand in opposition to this
emperor in the early fourth century. Nonetheless, senate, and senators, engaged
in disguised, political criticism in the face of an increasingly powerful
emperor, as literary and material evidence indicate.




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