In Praise of Constantine
Author | : Harold Allen Drake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harold Allen Drake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. E. V. Nixon |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2015-03-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520286251 |
Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of these insightful speeches is rendered into graceful English, yet remains faithful to the original.
Author | : Michael Hollerich |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520295366 |
Known as the “Father of Church History,” Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity’s early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, to a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new “nation,” the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius’s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period—across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries—until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius’s vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also when falling under scrutiny as that culture has been reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years.
Author | : Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780198149248 |
The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This English translation is the first based on modern critical editions. Its Introduction and Commentary open up the many important issues the Life of Constantine raises.
Author | : Eusebius |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1999-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191588474 |
Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.
Author | : Eusebius Pamphilius |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 2748 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465541160 |
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 | : |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108916775 |
The oration presented in this volume is critical to our knowledge of Constantine's early career and covers Maximian's rebellion, Constantine's claim of descent from Claudius II and his vision of Apollo. Written in AD 310, two years before Constantine's capture of Rome and his acceptance of Christianity, the speech gives a unique insight into the evolution of an imperial persona. This commentary examines the literary context of the panegyric and the role of the classical literary and rhetorical tradition in the recreation of Constantine's image. From the outset, the orator praises Constantine as separate from the imperial college: a deus praesens, god manifest, to the people of Gaul. He uses Lucan and Caesar to link Maximian's bid for power with the civil war between Caesar and Pompey while Vergilian allusion associates Constantine with Augustus.
Author | : Timothy David Barnes |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674165311 |
Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.