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Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 (Hardcover)
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Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable
phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic
sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the
frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young
western emperors in the years AD 367-455, she looks at the way in
which the sophistication of the Roman system made their accessions
and survival possible. The book highlights how these reigns allowed
for individual generals to dominate the Roman state and in what
manner the crucial role of Christianity, together with the vested
interests of various factions within the imperial elite,
contributed to a transformation of the imperial image - enabling
and facilitating the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to
portray boys as young as six as viable rulers. It also analyses the
struggles which ensued upon a child-emperor reaching adulthood and
seeking to take up functions which had long been delegated during
his childhood. Through the phenomenon of child-emperor rule, McEvoy
demonstrates the major changes taking place in the nature of the
imperial office in late antiquity, which had significant long-term
impacts upon the way the Roman state came to be ruled and, in turn,
the nature of rulership in the early medieval and Byzantine worlds
to follow.
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