Publication details

Manufacturing Consent: The Imperial Ideology and Senatorial Representation in the Maxentian Period (306–312 CE)

Authors

BODNARUK Mariana

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source N.E.C. Yearbook Pontica Magna Program and Gerda Henkel Program 2020-2021
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://nec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/MARIANA-BODNARUK.pdf
Keywords late antiquity; tetrarchy; epigraphy; Roamn senate; Roman aristocracy; late Roman government; statues; Maxentius; damnatio memoriae
Description The role of senatorial elites under the tetrarchic and Maxentian rule has received modest attention from historians. The exclusion from military service and government of provinces and the abandonment by emperors of the ideology of ‘republican monarchy’ destabilized the place of the senate in the structures of the empire. This article aims to investigate aristocratic involvement in the political change in Rome under Maxentius. It assesses the self-image of the senatorial aristocracy juxtaposed with that of the emperor in honorific inscriptions which reveal the shifting role of leading resident families of Rome in imperial power structures, challenged by the rapid advancement and consolidation of equestrian imperial elites. This article seeks to engage aristocratic self-representation together with the imperial one reinstated in the same historical context.

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