Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Rome

Malmberg, Simon

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“…Note that this interpretation has not received universal support: Russo (2009) 18-21 argues that the gate and the wall are contemporary, and Asutay- Effenberger (2007) 54-61 that the gate postdates the wall's construction and was erected c. 425. Malmberg (2014) 156-61 suggests that the context may be the fall of Priscus Attalus in the West in 416. 93 Meyer (1938) 90 Fig.…”

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DAMNATIO MEMORIAEORCREATIO MEMORIAE? MEMORY SANCTIONS AS CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE FOURTH CENTURY AD

Omissi

2016

Camb. class. j.

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Damnatio memoriae, the ill-defined group of processes that we often now refer to by the term ‘memory sanctions’, is generally thought of in wholly negative terms. It is imagined as a process of destruction, of erasure, and of silence. Yet these complex assaults on the memory of fallen enemies were far more than simply destructive processes. Through the example of Magnus Maximus (383–8) and his commemoration in Rome and Constantinople during the reign of Theodosius I, this article considers how memory sanctions could be generative of historical material and how emperors used oratory, ceremony and triumphal architecture to memorialise their fallen enemies.

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DAMNATIO MEMORIAEORCREATIO MEMORIAE? MEMORY SANCTIONS AS CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE FOURTH CENTURY AD

Omissi

2016

Camb. class. j.

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The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem

Méndez

2022

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As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution between 135 and 313 ce. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity—a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely intertwined with local prestige. At that time, the city had every incentive to stretch the fame of its few apostolic martyrs as far as possible—especially the fame of the biblical St. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6–8). What Jerusalem lacked in the quantity of its martyrs, it believed it could compensate for in an exclusive, local claim to the figure widely hailed as the “Protomartyr,” “firstborn of the martyrs,” and “chief of confessors.” This book traces the rise of the cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, exploring such historical episodes as the fabrication of the saint’s relics, the construction of a grand basilica in his honor, and the multiplication of his feast days. It argues that local church authorities promoted devotion to Stephen in the fifth century in a conscious attempt to position him as a patron saint for Jerusalem—a symbol of the city’s Christian identity and power.

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The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem

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Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Rome

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DAMNATIO MEMORIAEORCREATIO MEMORIAE? MEMORY SANCTIONS AS CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE FOURTH CENTURY AD

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