Life of Constantine

Life of Constantine
Title Life of Constantine PDF eBook
Author Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 395
Release 1999
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780198149248

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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.

Constantine

Constantine
Title Constantine PDF eBook
Author Paul Stephenson
Publisher Abrams
Pages 374
Release 2010-06-10
Genre History
ISBN 1468303007

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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 “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.”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

A Military Life of Constantine the Great

A Military Life of Constantine the Great
Title A Military Life of Constantine the Great PDF eBook
Author Ian Hughes
Publisher Pen and Sword Military
Pages 385
Release 2021-01-13
Genre History
ISBN 1526724243

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A new analysis of the strengths, organization, weapons, and tactics of the Roman army Constantine inherited and his military reforms. Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However, his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military might than upon his espousal of Christianity. He fought numerous campaigns, many against Roman rivals for Imperial power, most famously defeating Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. In this new study, Ian Hughes assesses whether Constantine would have deserved the title “the Great” for his military achievements alone, or whether the epithet depends upon the gratitude of Christian historians. All of Constantine’s campaigns are narrated and his strategic and tactical decisions analyzed. The organization, strengths, and weaknesses of the Roman army he inherited are described and the effect of both his and his predecessors’ reforms discussed. The result is a fresh analysis of this pivotal figure in European history from a military perspective.

Eusebius' Life of Constantine

Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Title Eusebius' Life of Constantine PDF eBook
Author Eusebius
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 418
Release 1999-09-10
Genre History
ISBN 0191588474

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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.

Defending Constantine

Defending Constantine
Title Defending Constantine PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Leithart
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 374
Release 2010-09-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830827226

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Peter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.

Constantine the Emperor

Constantine the Emperor
Title Constantine the Emperor PDF eBook
Author David Stone Potter
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 385
Release 2015
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0190231629

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An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
Title The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine PDF eBook
Author Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 546
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521521574

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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.