Constantine (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
416
Utgivningsdatum
2011-08-04
Förlag
Quercus Publishing
Illustratör/Fotograf
4X8pp plate sections
Illustrationer
4 x 8pp plate sections
Dimensioner
197 x 132 x 25 mm
Vikt
288 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780857381668

Constantine

Unconquered emperor, Christian victor

av Paul Stephenson
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-08-04
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Constantine is a masterly survey of the life and enduring legacy of the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the later Roman emperors - from a richly gifted young British historian. In 312, Constantine - one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire - marched on Rome to establish his sole control of its western half. Having claimed the imperial capital for himself, he then converted to Christianity and led its emergence from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine founded Constantinople on the site of the ancient trading colony of Byzantium, a new Christian capital set apart from Rome's pagan past. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East as Byzantium, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes in AD 476. Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the historically crucial idea of a unified Christian Europe. In Constantine, a seminal figure in the political and cultural history of the West has at last found the biographer he deserves.
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"Scholar Stephenson offers a stately though academic biography of the first Roman emperor who converted to Christianity, with a heavy emphasis on the archaeological record... Stephenson's knowledgeable account pursues a wide variety of historical branches of Constantine's story." - "Kirkus" "Everyone interested in the classical period should read this exemplary biography, which eschews psychological speculation and instead builds its case inventively from primary accounts and the iconographic record in statuary, architecture, and coinage."-"Library Journal" STARRED REVIEW

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Paul Stephenson is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Durham and a specialist in the early and middle Byzantine periods. His publications include The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer (2003) and Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 9001204 (2000), both for Cambridge University Press. Stephenson has researched and taught in the UK, Ireland, Germany and the USA.

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List of Maps and Stemmata. Preface. Introduction. Part I - Faith and Power in the Third Century: Religion in the Later Roman Empire; The Rise of Christianity; The Unconquered Emperor and his Divine Patron; The Tetrarchy. Part II - Constantine Invictus: Constantine Invictus; Constantine and Rome; Constantine's Conversion; Constantinople. Part III - Victor Constantine: Victor Constantine; Constantine Maximus Augustus; Constantine and the Bishops; Death and Succession. Conclusion. Glossary. Abbreviations. Primary Sources. Bibliographical Essays. Index.

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