The Emperor Constantine (LANCASTER PAMPHLETS IN ANCIENT HISTORY]
Hans A. Pohlsander
The emperor Constantine has been called the most importantemperor of Late Antiquity. His powerful personality laid the foundations not only of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and ofJerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but of post-classical European civilization; his reign was eventful and highly dramatic. His victory at the Milvian Bridge counts among the most decisive moments in world history.
But Constantine was also controversial, and the controversy begins in antiquity itself. The Christian writers Lactantius and Eusebius saw in Constantine a divinely appointed benefactor of mankind. Julian the Apostate, on the other hand, accused him of greed and waste, and the pagan historian Zosimus held him responsible for the collapse of the (Western) empire.
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Год:
1996
Издание:
2nd ed. 2004
Издательство:
Routledge
Язык:
english
Страницы:
135
ISBN 10:
0203622588
ISBN 13:
9780415319386
Серия:
Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History
Файл:
PDF, 2.70 MB
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english, 1996