Théodose | Bertrand Lançon

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Theodosius

Bertrand Lançon

Collection : Biographies

Release date : 09/10/2014

A little-known and controversial ruler, the last «great» emperor of Roman Antiquity, resituated in the context of his times and his own truth.

Theodosius was a Spanish military commander who ruled over the Eastern Roman Empire for fifteen years (379-395) while retaining tutelary authority over the Western Empire from 383 to 395. He was the first reigning Roman emperor to have been baptized as a Catholic Christian (as defined by the Council of... Theodosius was a Spanish military commander who ruled over the Eastern Roman Empire for fifteen years (379-395) while retaining tutelary authority over the Western Empire from 383 to 395. He was the first reigning Roman emperor to have been baptized as a Catholic Christian (as defined by the Council of Nicea of 325). The portrait of Theodosius most current today is one crafted by the ideologies of his descendants, who offer two very different images. For some, he is Theodosius the Great—the title granted him at the Council of Chalcedon in 451—for he is the emperor who had the temples closed and put an end to the pagan cults, who punished apostates and those who opposed Nicean Catholicism as heretics. All this he accomplished along with his victory over the barbarians and usurpers of the Empire. For others, he is the autocratic emperor who put an end to the religious freedom established by Constantine in the Edict of Milan of 313, who, in successive edicts, silenced the Romans who were not Catholics, and a bloodthirsty emperor at that. Theodosius was no doubt at the inception of Catholicism’s establishment as the Roman State religion. But the image of the emperor bound, even hampered, by his baptism in his exercise of power, who did his best to find a political means of co-existence with the bishops, the man at the head of an empire experiencing an unprecedented intellectual flowering, is overshadowed by this fact. And, beyond religious considerations, his role as a Spaniard, a general and son of a general, a victorious military leader who restored peace with the Persians and the barbarians through diplomacy, has remained in the background too.

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