Hilary of Poitiers and the political-religious images of the Emperor Constantius II : a portrait analysis (4th Century AD)

Abstract

In this study, we have as a first goal to highlight how the character Hilary has been associated to Credo de Niceia (325); after, on a second occasion, we will track how Poitiers Bishop tried to get acquainted with the Emperor Constantius II. The main goal in this approach is to show a new view over the political-religious image of the pictaviense Bishop both in relation to the measures set by the Emperor Constantius II in the roman occident and in relation to its insertion as an inflexible representor of the niceno credo. We pondered that both these two exams could assist us to build a kind of self-portrait that deconstruct the
image of an inflexible political religious image that is also coherent and antidiplomatic and show one more, as we can see it, one image we may say represents a mediator and moderator image