Crises of Leadership in the Eastern Roman Empire (250-1000 CE)

东罗马帝国的领导危机（公元 250-1000 年）

• 批准号: DP200100334
• 负责人: Dr Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides
• 金额: $ 34.78万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-03-10 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100334
• 关键词: Crises; Leadership; Eastern; Roman; Empire

Armed conflict, the upheaval of social systems, and environmental crises cause citizens to question their leaders during periods of social change. They also increase religious extremism, including speculations about the imminent end of the world. The period 250-1000 CE reveals many examples of how such crises served leaders who knew how to profit from instability to expand their powers, and how they damaged the reputations of those who did not. Understanding how past leaders of the Roman world addressed these crises in practical and rhetorical ways may provide helpful and timely models of what works (and what does not) for contemporary community and political leaders, even in democratic political societies such as Australia.

武装冲突、社会制度的动荡和环境危机使公民在社会变革时期质疑他们的领导人。它们还增加了宗教极端主义，包括关于世界末日即将来临的猜测。公元250年至公元1000年期间的许多例子表明，这些危机如何帮助那些知道如何从不稳定中获利以扩大权力的领导人，以及它们如何损害那些不知道的人的声誉。了解罗马世界过去的领导人如何以实际和修辞的方式解决这些危机，可能会为当代社区和政治领导人提供有用和及时的模式，即使在澳大利亚这样的民主政治社会中。