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LEADERSHIP IDEOLOGY AND CROWDS IN THE ROMAN EMP...

This book focuses on the functioning of Roman leadership in the period of the Tetrarchs to
Theodosius (284-395). Our volume starts from the idea that the imperial and ecclesiastical
administrations became interdependent in this period and thus presents an integrated approach
of imperial and religious leadership. As the spread of ideology plays a key role in creating
societal consensus and thus in wielding power successfully  the volume analyses both types of
leadership from an ideological angle. It examines the communicative strategies employed by
Roman emperors and bishops through analyzing the ideological messages that were disseminated by
a variety of media: coins  architectural monuments  literary and legal texts. The central
question of this volume is how  in a period in which an important shift took place in the power
balance between church and state  emperors and bishops made use of ideology to bind people to
them and thus to interact with their 'crowds'  whether they be the inhabitants of the city of
Rome or Constantinople  the subjects of the Empire at large or the members of the various
religious communities.

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