Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of popular medieval legends surrounding the reign, to reveal the different visions and representations of the emperor from saint and patron of the Western church to imperial prototype. Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend presents a comprehensive and arresting study of this important and controversial emperor.
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Constantine, History, Historiography and Legend makes a valuable contribution...[it] contains much that is interesting, not only concerning Constantine, but also about how attitudes to historical truth change, and how legends come into being..
–International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Winter 2001
This is a work of considerable scholarship from which advanced students and scholars will profit.
–Religious Studies Review
–International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Winter 2001
This is a work of considerable scholarship from which advanced students and scholars will profit.
–Religious Studies Review
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Samuel N.C. Lieu is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Routledge). Dominic Montserrat is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (Routledge).
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It is undeniably true, as Fergus Millar has recently reminded us, that the conversion of Constantine in 312 was not 'the moment when Christianity became "the official religion of the Roman Empire"'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Asia Minor, Gregory of Nazianzus, Milvian Bridge, Council of Nicaea, Council of Tyre, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Sam Lieu, Holy Sepulchre, John of Nikiou, New Testament, Old Testament, Late Antiquity, Constantine the Great, Lane Fox, Middle Ages, Sulpicius Severus, Valeria Maximilla, William of Malmesbury, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Ammianus Marcellinus, Basil of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Pope Sylvester, Constantius Chlorus New!
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It is undeniably true, as Fergus Millar has recently reminded us, that the conversion of Constantine in 312 was not 'the moment when Christianity became "the official religion of the Roman Empire"'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Asia Minor, Gregory of Nazianzus, Milvian Bridge, Council of Nicaea, Council of Tyre, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Sam Lieu, Holy Sepulchre, John of Nikiou, New Testament, Old Testament, Late Antiquity, Constantine the Great, Lane Fox, Middle Ages, Sulpicius Severus, Valeria Maximilla, William of Malmesbury, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Ammianus Marcellinus, Basil of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Pope Sylvester, Constantius Chlorus New!
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- Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series) by Eusebius on 4 pages
- Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Oxford-Warburg Studies) by Momigliano in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Theodosian Code by Jill Harries in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Penguin Classics) by Andrew Louth on page 43, and Back Matter
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