I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6683
dc.contributor.author	Mondin Luca
dc.title	I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	With the conversion to Christianity in the Theodosian age, the Roman aristocracy projected their class ideology and self-representation into the conception of religious sanctity and the vision of the Afterlife. On a literary level, this gives rise to an eschatological imagery in which the holy souls are the nobility and the ‘notables’ (proceres) of the eternal res publica, they constitute the ‘heavenly senate’ (caelestis curia) seated around the throne of God, and the martyrs of Christ are given the title of ‘consuls’. This paper aims to describe the development of such images in the Christian Latin poetry of the 4th-6th centuries AD.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-14
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-27
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-558-2/i-consoli-di-dio-un-topos-poetico-cristiano/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-557-5/022
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-558-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-557-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Christian Afterlife
dc.subject	Christian Afterlife
dc.subject	Christian literature
dc.subject	Christian literature
dc.subject	Late Latin poetry
dc.subject	Late Latin poetry
dc.subject	Roman aristocracy
dc.subject	Roman aristocracy
dc.subject	Roman consulate
dc.subject	Roman consulate

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I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano

Luca Mondin Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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With the conversion to Christianity in the Theodosian age, the Roman aristocracy projected their class ideology and self-representation into the conception of religious sanctity and the vision of the Afterlife. On a literary level, this gives rise to an eschatological imagery in which the holy souls are the nobility and the ‘notables’ (proceres) of the eternal res publica, they constitute the ‘heavenly senate’ (caelestis curia) seated around the throne of God, and the martyrs of Christ are given the title of ‘consuls’. This paper aims to describe the development of such images in the Christian Latin poetry of the 4th-6th centuries AD.

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Dec. 14, 2021

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Sept. 6, 2021

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July 27, 2021

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978-88-6969-558-2

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Keywords: Late Latin poetry • Roman aristocracy • Roman consulate • Christian literature • Christian Afterlife

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