Constantine and the Christian Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415575348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 440 str.

Charles M. Odahl

Opis

Constantine was of profound importance for the study of Roman history. This biography explores the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of his reign.

Constantine and the Christian Empire is the most thoroughly researched, accessibly readable, fully illustrated and completely documented portrayal of the life and times of the first Christian emperor available in recent decades. In a seamless combination of vivid narrative and historical analysis, Dr. Odahl has compellingly related the multiple crises and massive reforms of the late Roman world, the political career and military campaigns of the great emperor Constantine, his religious conversion to and public patronage of Christianity, and his building programs in Rome, Jerusalem, and Constantinople which transformed the pagan state of antiquity into the Christian empire of Byzantium.

The author’s comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources and his extensive research into the material remains of the period mean that this volume provides a more rounded and accurate portrait of Christian emperor than ever before. Extensively illustrated and fully documented, Constantine and the Christian Empire has been a landmark publication in Roman imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine history. A genealogy chart, additional illustrations, an expanded final chapter, and updated notes and bibliography in this new edition allow this book to remain the standard account of the subject for years to come.

Spis treści

1. The Subject and Ancient Sources  2. The Imperial Crisis and Illyrian Emperors  3. The First Tetrarchy and the Caesar's Son  4. The Gallic Emperor and the Dying Persecutors  5. The Italian Campaign and Constantine's Conversion  6. Religious Concerns and Apostolic Rome  7. The Eastern Crusade and the Nicene Council  8. The Dynastic Tragedy and Helena's Pilgrimage  9. Imperial Concerns and Christian Constantinople  10. The Final Campaigns and the Emperor's Heirs  11. The Thirteenth Apostle and the Christian Empire  12. The Legacy and Modern Interpretations

O autorze

Charles Matson Odahl long served as the Professor of Ancient and Medieval History and Latin Literature at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho (1975-2011) and now serves as Visiting Professor for Roman and Byzantine History at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. His main research interests are Cicero and the late Roman Republic, early Christianity, and Constantine and the early Byzantine Empire. He has travelled, lived, studied and taught throughout Europe and around the Mediterranean Basin, and examined all of the historical sites and monuments of the Ciceronian and Constantinian Eras. Previous publications include Early Christian Latin Literature (1993), Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy (Routledge, 2010), and first and second editions of Constantine and the Christian Empire (Routledge, 2004 and 2010).