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| 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 “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.”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 | : George E. Demacopoulos |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2016-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0823274217 |
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians reflecting on their tradition’s relationship to liberal democracy. The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.
| Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0521764238 |
"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Charles Odahl |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2010-07-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136961275 |
This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 – 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles Odahl relates the rise of Constantine amid the crises of the late Roman world, his dramatic conversion to and public patronage of Christianity, and his church building programs in Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople which transformed the pagan state of Roman antiquity into the Christian empire medieval Byzantium. The author’s comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources and his extensive research into the material remains of the period mean that this volume provides a more rounded and accurate portrait of Constantine than previously available. This revised second edition includes: An expanded and revised final chapter A new Genealogy and an expanded Chronology New illustrations Revised and updated Notes and Bibliography A landmark publication in Roman Imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine history, Constantine and the Christian Empire will remain the standard account of the subject for years to come.
| Author | : James Carroll |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 774 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618219087 |
A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."
| Author | : John William Eadie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Explores two areas of Constantine's religious affiliation: his conversion to Christianity and the specific details connected to his actions.
| Author | : H. A. Drake |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 636 |
| Release | : 2002-09-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780801871047 |
Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.
| Author | : David Stone Potter |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0190231629 |
An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.
| Author | : R. Ross Holloway |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0300129718 |
Constantine the Great (285–337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, R. Ross Holloway examines Constantine’s remarkable building program in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John’s in the Lateran and St. Peter’s, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler.
| 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.
