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

我的研究项目是对罗马晚期贱金属硬币宣传的定量调查，从戴克里先（284）的加入到狄奥多西二世（450）的死亡。与贵金属硬币更集中地分发给公民和军事精英观众不同，贱金属硬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。对这些资源的分析使我们能够考虑晚期罗马国家最想在其非精英公民中宣传的意识形态方面，以及定期接触这些信息可能会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，至少可以考察罗马国家与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.