The Age of Constantine the Great
Author | : Jacob Burckhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacob Burckhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob Burckhardt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429870213 |
Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt’s brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study. This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a familiar order of things visibly died and was supplanted by a new. Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt’s insight led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated.
Author | : Diana Bowder |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Benjamin Firth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. P. Baker |
Publisher | : Cooper Square Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2001-08-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1461732085 |
Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to power—an empire where feudalism was replacing the old senatorial government and the lands of the empire were split into two regions. It was also a place where customs from the East were replacing the old Roman values, preparing the way for the Byzantine Empire. Baker describes Constantine's unique conversion (which apparently did not prevent him from sacrificing to idols), his wars to control first the Roman army and then the Germans and the lands of Asia Minor, and finally the founding of Constantinople and the establishment of the monarchial system that dominated Europe for over a thousand years.
Author | : Michael Grant |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"The Emperor Constantine was one of the great, charismatic figures of the ancient world. He was directly responsible for two momentous transformations that greatly affected our history and civilization: the founding of Constantinople as the Roman capital and the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. With knowledge gained from modern research in all relevant fields, including archaeology, papyrology, and art history, Michael Grant traces the controversies that surround this intriguing ruler back to their very beginnings. He draws a compelling portrait of Constantine, assessing the emperor's achievements as a general in command of his armies and as a resourceful politician and reformer." "In art, politics, economics, social developments, and particularly in religion, the life of Constantine acts as a bridge between past and present. Michael Grant goes beyond the bias of literary sources and reveals the private man behind the public persona: the superstitious beliefs underpinning Constantine's hallucinatory visions and dreams that heralded his conversion to Christianity; his persecution of paganism in the name of Christianity that set precedents for centuries to come; and the relationship between church and state that gave way to the totalitarianism of the Late Roman Empire. Was he the last notable Roman emperor, or the first medieval monarch? Was the great convert a saint and hero, or should we regard him as a murderer who killed his wife, his eldest son, and many of his friends to further his own ambitions? These are just some of the issues raised in this revelatory biography."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Christopher Bush Coleman |
Publisher | : New York : Columbia university, Longmans, Green & Company, agents |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jakob Christoph Burckhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Bush Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Constitutum Constantini |
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