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Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
by Paul Stephenson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590203240
- ISBN 13
- 9781590203248
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About This Item
Abrams Press. Used - Very Good. 2010. Hardcover. Very Good.
Synopsis
This book 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. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes. 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. - Publisher.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Title
- Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
- Author
- Paul Stephenson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1590203240
- ISBN 13
- 9781590203248
- Publisher
- Abrams Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2010-06-10
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