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Romersk historia i Legenda Aurea : Hur det romerska imperiet under Decius, Diocletianus och Maximianus kan förstås genom 1200-talets ögon. / Roman history in Legenda Aurea : How the Roman Empire during the reign of Decius, Diocletian and Maximian can be seen through the eyes of the thirteenth century.

This essay takes its starting point in Legenda Aurea, a hagiographical compendium written in the thirteenth century by an Italian catholic friar, Jacobus de Voragine. The essay aims to find out how the Roman history in the third century is shown in Legenda Aurea, a Christian book written about a thousand years later. The purpose of this essay is to show how a part of the history of the Roman Empire is understood and remembered during the Christian hegemony that was during the thirteenth century. The main results of this essay show that the history of the Roman Empire during the reign of named emperors is remembered as a violent, brutal and authoritarian history, but also that Christianity seems to have been widespread within the Roman Empire during this time.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100468
Date January 2021
CreatorsJakobsson, Fredrik
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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