East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Roald Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University, is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at that university. His thesis (Portraying Witnesses. The apostles in early Christian art and poetry) will be published in Brill's Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Series. Sanne van Poppel, Ph. D. (2014), Radboud University, is the Assistant Head Librarian of KU Leuven Kulak. She received her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (Urbs et Augustus. The City of Rome in Politics and Representations of Power during the Constantinian Dynasty (306-361)). Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the period of Late Antiquity. She is currently working on an extensive project on urban crowd control in the Roman world. Contributors to this volume are Jan Willem Drijvers, Christian Gnilka, Hervé Inglebert, Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo, David Potter, Sofie Remijsen, Josef Rist, Shaun Tougher and Giusto Traina.

Contents
List of Maps and Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Roald Dijkstra , Sanne van Poppel and Daniëlle Slootjes

Part 1 - Geo-political Developments
1 Les discours de l’unité romaine au quatrième siècle
Hervé Inglebert
2 Measuring the Power of the Roman Empire
David Potter
3 Mapping the New Empire: A Geographical Look at the Fourth Century
Giusto Traina
4 Die Synode von Serdika 343: Das Scheitern eines ökumenischen Konzils und seine Folgen für die Einheit der Reichskirche
Josef Rist
5 The divisio regni of 364: The End of Unity?
Jan Willem Drijvers

Part 2 - Unity in the Fourth Century: Four Case Studies
6 Concordia Apostolorum – Concordia Augustorum. Building a Corporate Image for the Theodosian Dynasty
Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo
7 Looking at Athletics in the Fourth Century: The Unifijication of the Spectacle Landscape in East and West
Sofie Remijsen
8 Eunuchs in the East, Men in the West? Dis/unity, Gender and Orientalism in the Fourth Century
Shaun Tougher
9 Kaiser, Rom und Reich bei Prudentius
Christian Gnilka
Index