LEADER 04555nam 2200745 450 001 9910798032703321 005 20210503223833.0 010 $a0-8122-9223-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292237 035 $a(CKB)3710000000578009 035 $a(EBL)4401752 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001599121 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16300885 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599121 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13295412 035 $a(PQKB)11050779 035 $a(OCoLC)935989862 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52209 035 $a(DE-B1597)469706 035 $a(OCoLC)979724996 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4401752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11171605 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL888114 035 $a(OCoLC)935642578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4401752 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000578009 100 $a20160615h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstantine and the cities $eimperial authority and civic politics /$fNoel Lenski 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 225 1 $aEmpire and After 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-2368-3 311 0 $a0-8122-4777-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Maps --$tIntroduction. Many Faces of Constantine --$tChapter 1. Constantine Develops --$tChapter 2. Constantinian Constants --$tChapter 3. Constantine and the Christians --$tChapter 4. Approaching Constantine --$tChapter 5. The Exigencies of Dialogue --$tChapter 6. Constantine?s Cities in the West --$tChapter 7. Constantine?s Cities in the East --$tChapter 8. Redistributing Wealth --$tChapter 9. Building Churches --$tChapter 10. Empowering Bishops --$tChapter 11. Engaging Cities --$tChapter 12. Resisting Cities --$tChapter 13. Opposing Christians --$tChapter 14. Complex Cities --$tEpilogue --$tSigla and Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aOver the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state?a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the traditional tools of governance, yet his proclamation of his new religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. His coins and inscriptions, public monuments, and pronouncements sent unmistakable signals to his non-Christian subjects that he was willing not only to accept their beliefs about the nature of the divine but also to incorporate traditional forms of religious expression into his own self-presentation. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski attempts to reconcile these apparent contradictions by examining the dialogic nature of Constantine's power and how his rule was built in the space between his ambitions for the empire and his subjects' efforts to further their own understandings of religious truth. Focusing on cities and the texts and images produced by their citizens for and about the emperor, Constantine and the Cities uncovers the interplay of signals between ruler and subject, mapping out the terrain within which Constantine nudged his subjects in the direction of conversion. Reading inscriptions, coins, legal texts, letters, orations, and histories, Lenski demonstrates how Constantine and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire. 410 0$aEmpire and after. 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zRome$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zRome$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and politics$zRome$xHistory 607 $aRome$xHistory$yConstantine I, the Great, 306-337 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government$y284-476 607 $aRome$xReligion 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aClassics. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory. 676 $a937/.08 700 $aLenski$b Noel Emmanuel$f1965-$0297684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798032703321 996 $aConstantine and the cities$92645208 997 $aUNINA