Augustus To Constantine
Download Augustus To Constantine full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Augustus To Constantine ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664227722 |
This masterful study of the early centuries of Christianity vividly brings to life the religious, political, and cultural developments through which the faith that began as a sect within Judaism became finally the religion of the Roman empire. First published in 1970, Grant's classic is enhanced with a new foreward by Margaret M. Mitchell, which assesses its importance and puts the reader in touch with the advances of current research.
Author | : Barry Strauss |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1451668848 |
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author | : J. B. Rives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : 9780760701386 |
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1761 |
Genre | : Emperors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Hartley |
Publisher | : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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 | : 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.