Eternal Victory

Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

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Paperback | 17 September 1990

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As the Roman empire declined and ''fell'', contemporary glorification of the emperor''s triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire''s perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first comprehensive study of how a great imperial ceremony actually developed and how it influenced both the eastern and western heirs to the Roman legacy, the Roman triumph''s resurgence and afterlife is documented from the Tetrarchy down to the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and down to Charlemagne''s successors in the early medieval West. This perspective shows that celebrations of the ruler''s victory experienced unceasing change in ritual form and content and that these changes mirrored broader trends in the development of society and the monarchy. At the same time, it casts new light on the late Roman origins of the trappings of early medieval kingship. Far from the imperial capital, the cult of triumphal rulership permeated local elites, as commanders in the provinces imitated the supreme victor by staging triumphs of their own, and the new Germanic kings followed suit. Classicists, medievalists, Byzantinists, specialists of art and ritual will find here new data and approaches to a central problem in the transformation of the Roman empire which culminated in the new civilization of Byzantium and the Germanic Kingdoms.

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"Michael McCormick has written a I^Decline and Fall for the twenty-first century. [...] his brilliant book will shatter most people's conceptions of the Dark Ages." Times Literary Supplement "McCormick's scholarship is as daunting and profound as might be expected from someone with the boldness to conduct parallel explorations of Byzantium and the West. In the process of fully documenting victory celebrations, he pokes into obscure corners with the gusto of a born antiquarian. He even manages to discover how the Roman state and its heirs communicated their triumphs to distant provincials. His zeal in gathering primary evidence is matched by mastery of the critical literature; based at Dumbarton Oaks, he had an unequalled listening post for tracking scholarship." Canadian Journal of History "...McCormick has made a major contribution to Mediterranean history." Jonathan Shepard, The International History Review

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Foreword	p. xi
Note to the paperback edition	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: Imperial Triumph as a Historical Problem	p. 1
Invincible Empire: The Ideology of Victory Under the Principate	p. 11
Out of the Streets and into the Circus: The Development of Imperial Victory Celebrations in the Later Roman Empire	p. 35
From Constantine I to Theodosius I	p. 36
From the Theodosian succession to Anastasius	p. 47
From Justinian to iconoclasm	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 78
Imperial Victory Celebrations and the Public Life of the Later Roman State	p. 80
Usurpers and barbarians	p. 80
Imperial victory rituals: evidence from Rome	p. 84
Imperial victory rituals: non-Roman evidence	p. 91
The christianization of imperial victory celebrations	p. 100
The division of the empire and the collegiality of victory	p. 111
Victory celebrations and the throne	p. 120
The Development of Imperial Victory Celebrations in Early Medieval Byzantium	p. 131
Triumphs of Constantine V	p. 134
An age of generals: victory celebrations in the late eighth century	p. 137
Amorian triumphs	p. 144
The legitimation of Basil I	p. 152
High tide of triumph, 956-72	p. 159
The celebration of victory under the last Macedonians	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 184
Organizing a Byzantine Triumph	p. 189
A Distant Echo: Victory Celebrations in the Imperial Provinces	p. 231
Ties that bind	p. 232
God and country	p. 237
Little Caesars	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 258
Ephemeral Empires: Triumphal Rulership in Barbarian Africa, Burgundy and Italy	p. 260
The king's triumphal majesty in Vandal Africa	p. 261
Victory customs in the kingdom of the Burgundians	p. 266
Triumphal ideology in Ostrogothic Italy	p. 267
Lombard kingship and victory	p. 284
The King's Victory in Visigothic Spain	p. 297
Royal ceremony and Visigothic kingship	p. 298
Royal victory celebrations	p. 302
The social context of Visigothic victory celebrations	p. 315
The rhetoric of victory	p. 323
From Late Antique to Early Feudal Society: Frankish Victory Celebrations	p. 328
Merovingian victory celebrations	p. 335
The liturgy of victory in Francia	p. 342
Carolingian court ceremonial and the king's victory	p. 362
Conclusion	p. 384
Epilogue	p. 388
Bibliography of primary sources cited	p. 397
Frequently cited secondary sources	p. 412
Descriptive list of figures	p. 416
Index	p. 419
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Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

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