The transformation from the classical period to the medieval has long been associated with the rise of Christianity and this has deeply saturated the evidentiary fabric by which the modern audience imagines the separation of the classical world from its medieval and early modern successors. The role played in this transformation by Constantine as the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire has also profoundly shaped the manner in which we frame Late Antiquity and successive periods as distinctively Christian. The modern demarcation of the post-classical period is often inseparable from...