La barbarización del ejército y de la corte oriental: el matrimonio de Serena y Estilicón

• Autores: Elisabet Seijo Ibáñez
• Localización: Estudios Bizantinos: revista de la Sociedad Española de Bizantinística, ISSN-e 2014-9999, ISSN 2952-1432, Nº. 7, 2019, págs. 1-15
• Idioma: español
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  • On November 24th 380, Theodosius I celebrated his first aduentus in Constantinople and inaugurated a new period of the Roman Empire. Several women of his family arrived with him, and one of them was his adopted daughter Serena, who in 384 married Stilicho, a soldier born of a Roman woman and a Vandal. This union stands out as it was between a member of the imperial family and a man of barbarian origins (although Stilicho had Roman citizenship). The aim of this paper is to analyse the circumstances of the wedding and why Theodosius I allowed the nuptials.