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Constantine is a masterly survey of the life and enduring legacy of the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the later Roman emperors - from a richly gifted young British historian. In 312, Constantine - one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire - marched on Rome to establish his sole control of its western half. Having claimed the imperial capital for himself, he then converted to Christianity and led its emergence from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine founded Constantinople on the site of the ancient trading colony of Byzantium, a new Christian capital set apart from Rome's pagan past. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East as Byzantium, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes in AD 476. 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 historically crucial idea of a unified Christian Europe. In Constantine, a seminal figure in the political and cultural history of the West has at last found the biographer he deserves.Product Identifiers
PublisherQuercus Publishing
ISBN-139780857381668
eBay Product ID (ePID)109262445
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameConstantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Stephenson
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height197 mm
Item Weight292 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPaul Stephenson