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Constantine the Emperor

Author: D S Potter
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Constantine, Emperor of Rome
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: D S Potter
ISBN: 9780199755868 0199755868
OCLC Number: 780288988
Description: xiv, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Imperial resurrection. The crisis of AD 260 ; The renewal of the Roman Empire --
Diocletian. The new emperor ; Emperors and subjects ; A new look ; Persia and the Caesars --
Constantine and Diocletian. The court of Diocletian ; Imperial edicts and moral crusades ; Minervina ; The succession --
Fathers and sons. The new regime ; Maxentius and Fausta ; The end of Maximian --
The road to Rome. The gathering storm ; The battle of the Milvian Bridge ; Freedom of worship ; The conversion of Constantine --
War and peace. Reworking past and future ; Governing the empire ; Maximus and Bassus ; The Donatist controversy --
Triumph and tragedy. The defeat of Licinius ; The eastern empire ; Constantine speaks to the bishops ; The Arian controversy ; Nicaea ; Constantinople and Rome --
Ruler of the world. Constantine's government ; Constantinople ; An ordered society ; Christians, pagans, and Jews ; Neighbors ; End times --
Appendix. Finding Constantine.
Responsibility: David Potter.

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With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.

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