The providentialist interpretation of the Sack of Rome in 410 AD

Authors

  • Antonio José Meseguer Gil National University of Distance Education image/svg+xml
  • María José Jiménez Meseguer National University of Distance Education image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ha.XLI.2017.357-388

Keywords:

providencialism, literary sources, historiography, Augustine of Hippo, Alaric

Abstract

We analyze the interpretations present in the literary sources about Alaric’s Sack of Rome in 410 AD. This episode’s symbolic and real transcendence will be discussed in this work. We inquiry about how the Christian writers apply their interpretative schemes in the pagan-Christian controversy in order to fit this event in their apologetic paradigms. We organize the study through the several agents present in this interpretations: Roman urban plebe, the Senate, the imperial court of Honorius and Alaric’s army.

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Published

2017-12-13

Issue

No. XLI (2017)

Section

Artículos

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How to Cite

The providentialist interpretation of the Sack of Rome in 410 AD. (2017). Hispania Antiqua, XLI, 357-388. https://doi.org/10.24197/ha.XLI.2017.357-388