Exilium multatem: the case of the Patriarch Macedonius II of Constantinople within the Destex Project (original) (raw)

Abstract

The exilium was one of the most significant social phenomena of punitive nature throughout Late Antiquity. During these centuries experienced a huge evolution, difficult to follow both in the written and archaeological sources; although it was, mainly, applied over the highest echelons of society as summum supplicium. One of those is our particular case of study, the patriarch of Constantinople Macedonius II (late 5th - early 6th centuries), who was exiled by the emperor Anastasius I in the first decade of the latter to Eutachia (nowadays Avkat, Turkey). Throughout this paper, the group of scholarship holders of the project DESTEX -Exiled and banished in the Mediterranean (4th - 7th centuries)- will try to present, firstly, the archaeological record available to follow that particular case of exilium from Constantinople up to Eutachia and further to Gangra, were Macedonius lastly died. Subsequently, that information is intended to be contrasted with those available in the written sources, in order to obtain a global an interdisciplinary view of this particular case and to note the different nuances which each type of source can provide. Finally, it will be contextualized in the frame of the data base on which the project has been working on the last two years; introducing, in this way, the conclusions obtained up to now as well as the questions which remain unsolved and the lines of research to follow in a near future.

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