RT Book
T1 Helena Augusta: mother of the empire
T2 Women in antiquity
A1 Hillner, Julia 1971-
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814446974
AB "Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources, from textual and epigraphical to visual, and an array of archaeological insights from the places Helena lived at or visited, this book instead investigates Helena in the round, taking seriously the ruptures in her life course and her changing positions within the imperial and female networks of her time. The book follows Helena's life, the majority of which was spent in the third century and during the period of the tetrarchy, and explores the different ways in which she was commemorated after her death, up to the late sixth century. It wrestles Helena's historical significance back from medieval legends, to demonstrate the development and purpose of her role within Constantinian politics and to chart her meandering impact on the image and behavior of the Christian empress in the late Roman world"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN BR1720.H4
SN 9780190875305
SN 9780190875299
K1 Helena : Saint : approximately 255-approximately 330
K1 Christian women saints : Rome : Biography
K1 Empresses : Rome : Biography
K1 Christian women saints : Biography : Rome
K1 Rome : Biography : History : Constantine I, the Great, 306-337
K1 Biografie