Constantine Divine Emperor Of The Christian Golden Age
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Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521764238 |
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"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.
Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107538986 |
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Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age offers a radical reassessment of Constantine as an emperor, a pagan, and a Christian. The book examines in detail a wide variety of evidence, including literature, secular and religious architectural monuments, coins, sculpture, and other works of art. Setting the emperor in the context of the kings and emperors who preceded him, Jonathan Bardill shows how Constantine's propagandists exploited the traditional themes and imagery of rulership to portray him as having been elected by the supreme solar God to save his people and inaugurate a brilliant golden age. The author argues that the cultivation of this image made it possible for Constantine to reconcile the long-standing tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith by assimilating himself to Christ.
Author | : David Stone Potter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190231629 |
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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.
Author | : Noel Emmanuel Lenski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521521574 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.
Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780199255238 |
Download Brickstamps of Constantinople Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Brickstamps of Constantinople is the first major catalogue and analysis of stamped bricks manufactured in Constantinople and its vicinity in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods. The text discusses the organization of the brickmaking industry, the purpose of brickstamping, andestablishes for the first time a chronology for the brickstamps. On the basis of the conclusions, dates are proposed for previously undated buildings in the city, and revised dates are given for other monuments.
Author | : John William Eadie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Explores two areas of Constantine's religious affiliation: his conversion to Christianity and the specific details connected to his actions.
Author | : Hans A. Pohlsander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134364458 |
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First published in 2004. The Emperor Constantine provides a convenient and concise intro- duction to one of the most important figures in ancient history. Taking into account the historiographical debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Hans A. Pohlsander assesses Constantine’s achievements. Key topics discussed include: How Constantine rose to power; The relationship between church and state during his reign; Constantine’s ability as a soldier and statesmen; The conflict with Licinius. This second edition is updated throughout to take into account the latest research on the subject. Also included is a revised introduction and an expanded bibliography.
Author | : Sozomen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Arianism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jaume Aurell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108840248 |
Download Medieval Self-Coronations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400844533 |
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A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.