The Roman Empire Under Constantine the Great
Author | : Matthew Bridges |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1828 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Matthew Bridges |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1828 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Stephenson |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468303007 |
This “knowledgeable account” of the emperor who brought Christianity to Rome “provides valuable insight into Constantine’s era” (Kirkus Reviews). “By this sign conquer.” So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome for themselves. Constantine led Christianity and its adherents out of the shadow of persecution. He united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire, raising a new city center in the east. When barbarian hordes consumed Rome itself, Constantinople remained as a beacon of Roman Christianity. Constantine is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors—written by a richly gifted historian. Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.” —Publishers Weekly
Author | : Elizabeth Hartley |
Publisher | : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art, Roman |
ISBN | : |
Featuring a series of multi-disciplinary essays and a fully illustrated catalogue of objects, this book is a contribution to the study of the material and visual evidence for Constantine's reign. The geographic range for this book is the Roman Empire, with the focus mainly on the Western Empire.
Author | : Michael Grant |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"The Emperor Constantine was one of the great, charismatic figures of the ancient world. He was directly responsible for two momentous transformations that greatly affected our history and civilization: the founding of Constantinople as the Roman capital and the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. With knowledge gained from modern research in all relevant fields, including archaeology, papyrology, and art history, Michael Grant traces the controversies that surround this intriguing ruler back to their very beginnings. He draws a compelling portrait of Constantine, assessing the emperor's achievements as a general in command of his armies and as a resourceful politician and reformer." "In art, politics, economics, social developments, and particularly in religion, the life of Constantine acts as a bridge between past and present. Michael Grant goes beyond the bias of literary sources and reveals the private man behind the public persona: the superstitious beliefs underpinning Constantine's hallucinatory visions and dreams that heralded his conversion to Christianity; his persecution of paganism in the name of Christianity that set precedents for centuries to come; and the relationship between church and state that gave way to the totalitarianism of the Late Roman Empire. Was he the last notable Roman emperor, or the first medieval monarch? Was the great convert a saint and hero, or should we regard him as a murderer who killed his wife, his eldest son, and many of his friends to further his own ambitions? These are just some of the issues raised in this revelatory biography."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : David Stone Potter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190231629 |
With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.
Author | : Eusebius |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019378106 |
A fascinating biography of one of the most influential figures in world history, written by an eyewitness and contemporary of Constantine. With vivid detail and a compelling narrative, this book offers a glimpse into the world of the early Christian Church and the turbulent times in which it lived. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Jacob Burckhardt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429870213 |
Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt’s brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study. This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a familiar order of things visibly died and was supplanted by a new. Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt’s insight led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated.
Author | : John Dillon |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472118293 |
An examination of Constantine the Great's legislation and government
Author | : George Philip Baker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815411588 |
This sharp, engaging biography details the life and achievements of Constantine the Great who unified the Roman Empire, adopted Christianity as its official religion, and transferred the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2020-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780461592795 |