The Age Of Constantine The Great

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429870213
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : [London] : Routledge and K. Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Constantine the Great written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by [London] : Routledge and K. Paul. This book was released on 1949 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Burckhardt, Moses Hadas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Age of Constantine the Great written by Jacob Burckhardt, Moses Hadas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521574
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine written by Noel Emmanuel Lenski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190231629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine the Emperor written by David Stone Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eusebius
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191588474
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eusebius' Life of Constantine written by Eusebius and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eusebius' 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.

Author : Jonathan Bardill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521764238
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age written by Jonathan Bardill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674165311
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine and Eusebius written by Timothy David Barnes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here 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.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226576477
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the conversion of Constantine in 312, Christianity began a period of political and cultural dominance that it would enjoy until the twentieth century. Jacob Neusner contradicts the prevailing view that following Christianity's ascendancy, Judaism continued to evolve in isolation. He argues that because of the political need to defend its claims to religious authenticity, Judaism was forced to review itself in the context of a triumphant Christianity. The definition of issues long discussed in Judaism—the meaning of history, the coming of the Messiah, and the political identity of Israel—became of immediate and urgent concern to both parties. What emerged was a polemical dialogue between Christian and Jewish teachers that was unprecedented. In a close analysis of texts by the Christian theologians Eusebius, Aphrahat, and Chrysostom on one hand, and of the central Jewish works the Talmud of the Land of Israel, the Genesis Rabbah, and the Leviticus Rabbah on the other, Neusner finds that both religious groups turned to the same corpus of Hebrew scripture to examine the same fundamental issues. Eusebius and Genesis Rabbah both address the issue of history, Chrysostom and the Talmud the issue of the Messiah, and Aphrahat and Leviticus Rabbah the issue of Israel. As Neusner demonstrates, the conclusions drawn shaped the dialogue between the two religions for the rest of their shared history in the West.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine the Great written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable life of Constantine the Great... Constantine the Great was one of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Roman Empire and the widespread expansion of the Christian religion. This is in no way an understatement; Constantine was not only one of the last truly powerful Roman emperors, but he also successfully reconstituted the whole Empire according to his vision of Rome's future. He played the most significant role in transforming the Empire from a Greco-Roman pagan dominion into becoming a bulwark of the Christian faith, granting for the first time real temporal power for the early Christian Church. Without a doubt, Constantine the Great changed the world as we know it. This is the story of his life and his vision in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as Groomed for the Throne How the Roman West was Won Unifying the Empire Reforms and Conquests Taking on the Persians The Death of the Emperor And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Constantine the Great, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!