期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2016
卷号：20
页码：177-209
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：The pres ent contribution provides an examination of the relationship bet ween the emperor and the divine sphere in Latin panegyric poetry of the fifth and six th centuries. Following the path magisterially set forth by Claudian, poets like Sidonius Apollinaris and, later on, Corippus employs the same literary genre to praise the newly- come Germanic kings or the Eastern Emperor. They have, however, to face a profoundly transformed historical and political realm, not to mention a different approach towards religion. Whereas Panegy ric i Latini and Claudian could make wide use of my thological similes to c elebrate Rome, her grandeur and the deeds of the emperor, his successors deal with the ancient gods in quite a c lear-c ut or, so to say, crystallized way. They show a conservative (and, to some extent, nostalgic) attitude and still believe in the endurance of Rome, which is fated to last eternally. The sacralization of Rome (with the c oncurring ideas of a Christian providence and the literary clic hé of pagan aeternitas ) is integrated within the frame of an empire that has become totally Christianized and, especially in the East, fi nds in political theology a privileged terrain to establis h its roots. In particular the link bet ween Christianity and the emperor as vicar of God is well outlined by the symbolism of court ceremonial and gesture, which panegyrics desc ribe in great detail
