Presenting Power to the People: Monetary Iconography of the Late Roman State

我的研究项目是对从戴克里先（284年）即位到狄奥多西二世（450年）去世的罗马晚期贱金属硬币宣传进行定量调查。与贵金属铸币更集中地分发给公民和军事精英受众不同，贱金属铸币是一种国家生产的媒介，旨在在帝国更广泛的非精英居民中流通。通过对这些资料的分析，我们可以考虑晚期罗马政府最希望在非精英公民中宣传哪些意识形态方面，以及经常接触这些信息可能会如何影响更广泛的民众对帝国权威的体验。因此，它提供了一个机会，至少可以审视罗马国家与其沉默的大多数臣民之间对话的一个方面。

My research project is a quantitative-based investigation of Late Roman base-metal coin propaganda, from the accession of Diocletian (284) to the death of Theodosius II (450). Unlike the more focused distribution of precious metal coinage to civic and military elite audiences, the base-metal coinage was a state-produced medium intended to circulate amongst the wider non-elite residents of the empire. Analysis of this resource enables us to consider what ideological aspects the Late Roman state most wanted to publicise amongst its non-elite citizenry, and how regular exposure to these messages may have affected the wider populace's experience of imperial authority. As such, it offers the opportunity to examine at least one side of the dialogue between the Roman state and the silent majority of its subjects.