Pope Leo placed a crown on his head, and he was hailed by the whole Roman people: To the august Charles, crowned by God, the great and peaceful emperor of the Romans, life and victory! After the acclamations the pope addressed him in the manner of the old emperors. The name of Patricius was now abandoned and he was called Emperor and Augustus.¹ </p
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In 27 B.C., Octavian became Augustus. The chaos of the civil wars had ended and an emperor was at la...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
This article explores the development of the imperial title pontifex maximus from Emperor Augustus (...
In 27 BC the Senate conferred the cognomen Augustus on C. Julius Caesar (Octavianus) for his renewal...
Augustus is often labelled as “first emperor of Rome” and “founder of the Principate”. Both descript...
In the Roman Empire of the 3rd century crisis the title of princeps iuventus was born by: 1. caesare...
The Nomen Augusti of Charlemagne and the Carolingian imperium. –The Nomen Augusti of Charlemagne is ...
After the demise of the Second Triumvirate, Augustus restored the outward façade of the free republi...
The pontificatus maximus, one of Rome's main priesthoods, became an integral part of the emperor's a...
Faced with the worship of the ruler in the Greek east, Augustus could do little more that regulate a...
The article is concerned with the title aeternus Augustus and its position in Roman imperial titulat...
Three emperors were crowned in Rome, while the pope was residing in Avignon: Henry VII (1312), Louis...
Short after the end of 312 a new word – tyrannus - was introduced in Roman political vocabulary. Mak...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...
Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the firs...
In 27 B.C., Octavian became Augustus. The chaos of the civil wars had ended and an emperor was at la...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
This article explores the development of the imperial title pontifex maximus from Emperor Augustus (...