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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777074203321

Titolo

Constantine : history, historiography and legend / / editors, Samuel N.C. Lieu, Dominic Montserrat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Disciplina

937/.08/092

B

Soggetti

Emperors - Rome

Religion and state - Rome - History

Christian legends - Rome

Rome History Constantine I, the Great, 306-337 Historiography

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 (p. 207-230) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.