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Constantine and the Christian empire / Charles Matson Odahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Odahl, Charles Matson, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Roman imperial biographies.
- Roman imperial biographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
- Constantine.
- Emperors--Rome--Biography.
- Emperors.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Rome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 - 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles Odahl relates the rise of Constantine amid the crises of the late Roman world, his dramatic conversion to and public patronage of Christianity, and his church building programs in Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople which transformed the pagan state of Roman antiquity into the Christian empire medieval Byzantium. The author's comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources and his
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE (To the First Edition); PREFACE (To the Second Edition); ILLUSTRATIONS LIST; GENEALOGY (Constantinian Dynasty); CHRONOLOGY (Constantinian Times); I THE SUBJECT AND THE ANCIENT SOURCES; II THE IMPERIAL CRISIS AND THE ILLYRIAN EMPERORS; III THE FIRST TETRARCHY AND THE CAESAR'S SON; IV THE GALLIC EMPEROR AND THE DYING PERSECUTORS; V THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN AND CONSTANTINE'S CONVERSION; VI RELIGIOUS CONCERNS AND APOSTOLIC ROME; VII THE EASTERN CRUSADE AND THE NICENE COUNCIL; VIII THE DYNASTIC TRAGEDY AND HELENA'S PILGRIMAGE
- IX IMPERIAL CONCERNS AND CHRISTIAN CONSTANTINOPLEX THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS AND THE EMPEROR'S HEIRS; XI THE THIRTEENTH APOSTLE AND THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE; XII THE LEGACY AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS LIST; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-96127-5
- 1-136-96128-3
- 1-282-65969-3
- 9786612659690
- 0-203-85028-9
- 9780203850282
- OCLC:
- 650534102
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