TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Helena Augusta : Mother of the Empire
T2  - Women in antiquity
A1  - Hillner, Julia, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5621381
AB  - "In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire, Julia Hillner traces Helena's story through her life's peaks, which generated beautiful imperial artwork, entertaining legends as well as literary outrage. But Helena Augusta also pays careful attention to the disruptions in Helena's life course and in her commemorationdisruptions that were created by her nearest male relatives. Hillner shows that Helena's story was not just determined by the love of a son or the rise of Christianity. It was alsolike that of many other late Roman womendefined by male violence and by the web of changing female relationships around her, to which Helena was sometimes marginal, sometimes central and sometimes ancillary. Helena Augusta offers unique insight into the roles of imperial women in Constantinian self-display and in dynastic politics from the Tetrarchy to the Theodosian Age, and it also reminds us that the late Roman female life course, even that of an empress, was fragile and non-linear"--
SN  - 978-0-19-087529-9 kovakantinen
SN  - 9780190875305 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Helena, : pyhä, : noin 250-330.
KW  - Helena, : helgon, : ca 250-330 e.Kr
KW  - Konstantinus : I, : Rooman keisari, : noin 272-337.
KW  - Konstantin den store, : romersk kejsare, : ca 272-337
KW  - historia
KW  - uskontohistoria
KW  - kristinusko
KW  - naiset
KW  - pyhimykset ja pyhät
KW  - Christian women saints : Rome : Biography.
KW  - Christian women saints
KW  - Women saints
KW  - Kvinnliga helgon
KW  - Rooman valtakunta
KW  - Rome : History : Constantine I, the Great, 306-337 : Biography.
KW  - Romerska riket
ER  -