Le costume de prince. Vivre et se conduire en souverain dans la Rome antique d'Auguste à Constantin. Magazines extremely rare in French public

extremely rare in French public collections

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Le costume de prince. Vivre et se conduire en souverain dans la Rome antique d'Auguste à Constantin. Magazines extremely rare in French publicThis book studies the development of an archetype, that of the prince, from Augustus to Constantine. Gradually, a sort of "costume" was imagined that one had to wear in order to appear legitimate and to deserve to be among the "good princes." This archetype corresponded to constraints and expectations that one had to conform to and which were supposed to counterbalance the legally founded omnipotence of the prince. We can evoke with regard to the