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Constantine : history, historiography, and legend / edited by Samuel N.C. Lieu and Dominic Montserrat.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
- Constantine.
- Emperors--Rome--Biography.
- Emperors.
- Religion and state--Rome--History.
- Religion and state.
- Christian legends--Rome.
- Christian legends.
- Rome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337--Historiography.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction AVERIL CAMERON; Constantine: history and historiography; Constantine, Athanasius and the Christian Church TIMOTHY BARNES; Christianity and the Late Roman Army ROGER TOMLIN; The cities of Asia Minor in the age of Constantine STEPHEN MITCHELL; The illegitimacy of Constantine and the birth of the tetrarchy BILL LEADBETTER; Some Constantinian documents in the Vita Constantini STUART G.HALL; Constantine: Legend; Biographical Models: the Constantinian period and beyond ANNA WILSON
- From history to legend and legend to history: The medieval and Byzantine transformation of Constantine's Vita SAMUEL LIEU; Constantine in Coptic: Egyptian constructions of Constantine the Great TERRY WILFONG; Constantine, St Aldhelm and the Loathly Lady JANE STEVENSON; Bibliography; Indices
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-230) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-84576-052-2
- 1-134-84185-X
- 1-280-33233-6
- 9786610332335
- 0-203-29835-7
- 1-134-84186-8
- 0-203-02755-8
- 9780203027554
- OCLC:
- 61485122
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