Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | Paulo maiora canamus
Chapter | I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano
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.
Submitted: July 27, 2021 | Accepted: Sept. 6, 2021 | Published Dec. 14, 2021 | Language: it
Keywords Late Latin poetry • Christian Afterlife • Roman consulate • Roman aristocracy • Christian literature
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Storia letteraria e intertestualità
Note filologiche
Studi sul Tardoantico
Studi di ricezione
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Mondin Luca |
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I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano |
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Chapter |
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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. |
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Antiquity Studies |
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Filologia e letteratura |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
dc.issued |
2021-12-14 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2021-09-06 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2021-07-27 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-558-2/i-consoli-di-dio-un-topos-poetico-cristiano/ |
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10.30687/978-88-6969-557-5/022 |
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2610-8828 |
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2610-9344 |
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978-88-6969-558-2 |
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978-88-6969-557-5 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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yes |
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Christian Afterlife |
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Christian Afterlife |
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Christian literature |
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Christian literature |
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Late Latin poetry |
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Late Latin poetry |
dc.subject |
Roman aristocracy |
dc.subject |
Roman aristocracy |
dc.subject |
Roman consulate |
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Roman consulate |
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