imperium

Examples of imperium in the following topics:

• Structure of the Republic

  • The president of the comitia centuriata was usually a consul, and the comitia centuriata would elect magistrates who had imperium powers (consuls and praetors).
  • The most significant constitutional power a magistrate could hold was that of imperium or command, which was held only by consuls and praetors.

• The Pax Romana

  • As a result of this, Augustus retained imperium over the provinces where the majority of Rome’s soldiers were stationed.
  • Beyond Rome, Augustus was granted maius imperium, meaning greater (proconsular) power.

• Julius Caesar

  • In doing so, he deliberately broke the law on imperium and engaged in an open act of insurrection and treason.

• Founding of the Roman Empire

  • He was declared a senator and granted the power of military command, imperium, in 43 BCE, and was further able to leverage his successes to obtain the vacant consulships left by the two defeated consuls of that year.

• Ottonian Painting in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Ottonian rule was accompanied by renewed faith in the idea of imperium (Latin, roughly translated as "power to command" and referring to the sovereignty of state over individual) and also coincided with a period of significant church reform.

• The Coronation of 800 CE

  • How realistic either Charlemagne or the pope felt it to be that the people of Constantinople would ever accept the king of the Franks as their emperor, we cannot know; Alcuin speaks hopefully in his letters of an Imperium Christianum ("Christian Empire"), wherein, "just as the inhabitants of the [Roman Empire] had been united by a common Roman citizenship," presumably this new empire would be united by a common Christian faith.