RT Article
T1 Series persecutorum: Le liste delle persecuzioni tra patti di memoria e damnatio memoriae
JF Annali di storia dell'esegesi
VO 37
IS 2
SP 397
OP 428
A1 Andrei, Osvalda 1949-
LA Italian
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1750187337
AB This essay argues that the lists of pre-Constantinian persecuting emperors are characteristic of Christian chrono-historiography. The examples examined here concern the lists of two  or seven emperors and extend from the early 4th century AD to the 5th century AD. Little attention has been given to the fact that these lists correspond to numeric models that highlight their canonical nature and function. These canonical lists perform the function of building and transmitting a public memory of the pre-Constantinian Church, following traditional models of memory such as the damnatio memoriae.