Constantine the Emperor
Author: David Stone Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0190231629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.
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The Justice of Constantine
Author: John Dillon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0472118293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Constantine the Great's legislation and government
Constantine
Author: Paul Stephenson
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1468303007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “knowledgeable account” of the emperor who brought Christianity to Rome “provides valuable insight into Constantine’s era” (Kirkus Reviews). “By this sign conquer.” So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome for themselves. Constantine led Christianity and its adherents out of the shadow of persecution. He united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire, raising a new city center in the east. When barbarian hordes consumed Rome itself, Constantinople remained as a beacon of Roman Christianity. Constantine is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors—written by a richly gifted historian. 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 idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.” —Publishers Weekly
Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Author: Eusebius
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999-09-10
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0191588474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.
Constantine Porphyrogennetos - The Book of Ceremonies
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-27
Total Pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9004344926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis) , a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
Defending Constantine
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0830827226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.
DR CONSTANTINE'S BRIDE
Author: Fusako Wazumi
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Published: 2024-03-02
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 459662383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe expected to be reunited with her lover. Instead, her heart has been broken… I'm going to start my new life on that island! With high expectations, Katie heads for her lover's home island of Cyprus. But it's her lover's cousin, Christos Constantine, who shows up at the airport. He devastates her by telling her his cousin is getting married and he won’t allow her to ruin the wedding. Grief-stricken, Katie wants to talk with her lover herself, but Christos won't even give her his contact information. Instead, Katie decides to take a job as a nurse under Christos's supervision.
CONSTANTINE'S DEFIANT MISTRESS
Author: Sharon Kendrick
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 4596686831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven years ago, Laura had a brief affair with Constantine Karantinos. Now he's getting married, but Laura has a surprise for him?their short time together resulted in a son, Alex. Constantine, now with the heir he needs, ends his engagement and insists Laura and Alex come to Greece. Laura agrees, but only as a servant in his house. While Laura works during the day, Constantine has other ideas for her at night. But can a man raised in a loveless family learn to truly care for Laura and their son?
Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age
Author: Jonathan Bardill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0521764238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.
Constantine and Eusebius
Author: Timothy David Barnes
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780674165311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.
