Justinianus Eponymus: Überlegungen zur letzten Glanzzeit kaiserlicher Namensverleihungen an Städte

IF 0.2 3区历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1515/bz-2022-0011

M. Ritter

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Abstract

Abstract The emperor Justinian’s (527-565) penchant for naming institutional bodies after himself is a well-known feature of his reign - not only to modern scholarship but already for his contemporaries. The present study takes a closer look at the cities which were conferred the name of Justinian and Theodora since it may shed light on the emperor’s vision for the empire and his relations to the cities. The study sets off with an investigation of the various contexts, incentives and initiators for the grant of Justinian’s appellation to the cities. In brief, the confer of imperial epithets concerned the relation between the emperor and his subjects, who petitioned with him for this honour and received his name as a token of benevolence. The emperor’s favour conveyed power, and those below him strove to get his attention. In passing, the study also considers the longevity of the imperial eponyms. They did not usually stick in the subsequent centuries, partly because there were far too many cities named after the couple than was handy for the central administration, but also because the eponyms lost their function in the course of time.

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查士丁尼皇帝(527-565)喜欢以自己的名字命名机构，这是他统治时期的一个众所周知的特点——不仅在现代学术界如此，在他的同时代人也是如此。本研究对查士丁尼和狄奥多拉命名的城市进行了更深入的研究，因为这可能会揭示皇帝对帝国的愿景以及他与城市的关系。这项研究从查士丁尼授予城市称号的各种背景、动机和发起者的调查开始。总之，皇帝的称号的授予关系到皇帝和他的臣民之间的关系，臣民向他请愿获得这一荣誉，并接受他的名字作为仁慈的象征。皇帝的宠幸传达了权力，而他的下级则努力得到他的注意。顺便说一下，这项研究也考虑了皇族姓氏的寿命。在随后的几个世纪里，这些名字并没有被保留下来，部分原因是有太多的城市以这对夫妇的名字命名，这对中央政府来说太方便了，但也因为随着时间的推移，这些名字失去了作用。

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