Ricardo da COSTA

Original title: Arte e História: a gênese da concepção monárquica no Ocidente cristão (sécs. IV-VI)

Published in Idea and image of royal power of the monarchies in Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Christianity, Clovis I, Constantine, Middle Ages, Monarchy, Theodosius I, the Great.

The article examines the birth of the Monarchy in the Medieval West. To do it, three paradigmatic cases that helped to build the monarchical ideal are analyzed: the conversions to Christianity of Constantine the Great (272-337) and King Clovis I (c. 466-511), beyond the submission of Theodosius I (347-395) to the Roman Catholic Church, with their corresponding images (fresco, painting, sculpture, coin, illumination, tomb).