The Life and Legacy of Constantine: Traditions Through the Ages

ISBN-13: 9780367879600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

M. Shane Bjornlie

Opis

Interpretations of the motives and sincerity of Constantine’s conversion to Christianity have characterized explanations of everything from the religious culture of the late Roman state to the dynamics of ecclesiastical politics. What receives less-frequent attention is the fact that our modern appreciation of Constantine is itself a direct resu

Spis treści

Introduction, Bjornlie / Imagining Constantine, then and now, Van Dam / The reception of classical pastoral in the age of Constantine, Chinn / Platonism in the palace: the character of Constantine’s theology, DePalma Digeser / What hath Constantine wrought?, Drake / Constantine and Silvester in the Actus Silvestri, Sessa / Constantine in the 6th century: from Constantinople to Tours, Bjornlie / Back to the future: Constantine and the last Roman Emperor, Baxter Wolf / Charlemagne: a new Constantine?, Emerick / Dante, Constantine the Christian, and the illegitimate donation of Constantine, Deen Schildgen / ‘If possession be Poysen’: endowment, sophistic and the legacy of Constantine in late medieval England, Jahner / Constantine in late medieval western art: just the son of a holy mother?, Jaritz / Constantine and the Renovatio Romae in the Renaissance and Baroque, Gorse.

O autorze

M. Shane Bjornlie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome (2011) and Associate Professor of Roman and Late Antique History in the Department of History at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles.