At court service

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
T. G. Yakovenko
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Family

The article carries information about D. 0. Otts work as a Court physician. Ittouches upon the events connected with the birth о f children in the Imperial Family. The article is written on the basis of the archive documents and the memoirs.

scholarly journals Nero and Britannicus in the pompa circensis: The Circus Procession as Dynastic Ceremony in the Court of Claudius

Klio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-664
Author(s):  
Geoffrey S. Sumi
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Circus Maximus ◽  
Imperial Family ◽  
The City

SummaryAs part of the events marking Nero’s assumption of the toga virilis in 51 CE, he along with Britannicus led the circus procession (pompa circensis) in advance of games in the Circus Maximus. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct this pompa circensis, both in its processional elements and route through the city. The presence of potential successors along with images of the deified and honored dead of the imperial family shows how this ceremony evolved and expanded in the Principate to become a dynastic ceremony. The route of the newly modified pompa circensis, marked by monuments built by or dedicated to members of the imperial family, also had become increasingly dynastic. An essential element of the pompa circensis was the participation of the senate and equestrian order as well as the urban plebs, an act of performed consensus fully realized when the procession ended in the Circus Maximus. This circus procession, as reconstructed here, has further implications for the larger question of the imperial succession under Claudius.

From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary

Global/Local ◽  
1996 ◽  
pp. 145-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Shohat ◽  
Robert Stam
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Family

scholarly journals Making Saints: Canonization and Community in Late Imperial Russia

2006 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Robert H. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
Imperial Family ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Official Recognition

The story of canonization in late imperial Russia has been told, traditionally, as a political and institutional narrative of church-state relations, of strategic decisions made at the highest levels by high-ranking clerics and members of the imperial family. This essay examines the cults of Anna Kashinskaia and Sofronii Irkutskii as case studies of canonization “from below,” demonstrating that in both instances local believers and clerics played prominent roles in initiating and ultimately securing official recognition for their locally-revered miracle-workers as a gesture of thanks for miracles rendered to the community. The efforts of the local faithful on behalf of their saints speaks both to the deep feelings of reciprocal obligation that characterized believers’ relationships with the holy dead, and to the powerful localized dimension of sanctity. The miracle stories attributed by local believers to Saints Anna and Sofronii reveal how the faithful saw and talked about their saints not as distant fi gures in another world but as hometown heroes forever present in the community where they had lived, served, died, and (most importantly) were buried.

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