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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459189703321

Autore

Odahl Charles M (Charles Matson), <1944-, >

Titolo

Constantine and the Christian empire / / Charles Matson Odahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-96127-5

1-136-96128-3

1-282-65969-3

9786612659690

0-203-85028-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Collana

Roman imperial biographies

Disciplina

937/.08092

B

Soggetti

Emperors - Rome

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Electronic books.

Rome History Constantine I, the Great, 306-337

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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