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Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge / Raymond Van Dam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Dam, Raymond.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saxa Rubra, Battle of, Italy, 312.
- Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
- Constantine.
- Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius, Emperor of Rome, -312.
- Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 296 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- "Constantine was the first Christian emperor in the Roman empire. Before his victory in 312 at the battle of the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, he claimed to have seen a vision of a cross in the sky. The book analyzes the legends about the battle and the vision, from the later Roman empire to the later medieval period. By rehabilitating the significance of Maxentius, the losing emperor, this book also emphasizes the competing ideas at stake about Roman emperorship, the contours of the empire,and the place of Rome"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Foreword: Visions of Constantine 1
- The Vision
- Memories, Traditions, Narratives
- That Other Vision
- Imaginary History
- 2 The Afterlife of Constantine 19
- Medieval Popes
- The Battle at Constantinople
- Relics
- 3 Ecclesiastical Histories 33
- Pagan Critics
- Christian Historians
- New Visions
- Memories of Constantine
- 4 Constantine's Memories 56
- Eusebius and Constantine
- Constantine's Stories
- Eusebius' Memories
- Theology Becomes History
- From Moses to Jesus
- 5 Eusebius' Commentary 82
- Changing the Story ... Repeatedly
- Changing the Backstory
- 6 Shaping Memories in the West 101
- A Panegyric at Trier
- Lactantius at Trier
- The Arch in Rome
- A Panegyric at Rome
- Absence
- Twilight
- 7 Rome After the Battle 155
- Porfyrius the Poet
- A Dispute in North Africa
- The Arch at Malborghetto
- A Dedication, a Statue, and a Hand
- Churches and Ritual Topography
- Victory
- 8 Backward and Forward 219
- 9 Remembering Maxentius 224
- Empire
- Emperorship
- Forgetting Maxentius
- 10 Back Word: The Bridge 253
- Remembering the Bridge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107096431
- 110709643X
- OCLC:
- 683247757
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