Constantine Roman Emperor, Christian Victor

Light bumping on spine head. Else binding clean. Sunning on page edge. Small stain on page fore-edges. Else pages clean. Very light bumping on DJ spine head. Else DJ clean. ; Color Photographs; BIH21C; 352 pages

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 1590203240

ISBN-13: 9781590203248

Publisher: The Overlook Press

Year: 2009

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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