Kατὰ μίμησιν τῆς μακαρίας Πουλχερίας. Diffrazioni storiografiche per speculum haeresiae

Abstract

In our contribution we analyse the strategies of self-representation and propaganda (transmitted by the sources according to contrasting doctrinal orientations), employed on the background of the great Christological debates of the V century, by the bride of the Emperor Theodosius II, Eudocia, and especially by his sister, Aelia Pulcheria, in order to embody the transcendent and sacred monopoly of the female imperial royalty.