Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367880446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 148 str.

A. Edward Siecienski

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This volume brings together some of the English-speaking world’s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. Focusing on the questions that have for so long intrigued historians, classicists, and theologians, the papers collected in this volume prove once again that Constan

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Notes on Contributors

Foreword - Tom Papademetriou

Abbreviations

Introduction

A. Edward Siecienski

Part One: Debates

Constantine and religious extremism

H.A. Drake

The significance of the Edict of Milan

Noel Lenski

Part Two: Historiography

The sources for our sources: Eusebius and Lactantius on Constantine in 312-313

Raymond Van Dam

Constantine in the pagan memory

Mark Edwards

Writing Constantine

David Potter

Part Three: Legacy

The Eusebian valorization of violence and Constantine's wars for God

George E. Demacopoulos

Constantine the Pious

Peter J. Leithart

O autorze

A. Edward Siecienski is Associate Professor of Religion and Pappas Professor of Byzantine Culture and Religion at Stockton University, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy (2010) and The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate (2017).