Constantine. (Classical Lives).

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263 Seiten / p., 16 plates. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The Emperor Constantine was at the heart of one of the most dramatic epochs of the transition from the ancient world to the medieval. Rejecting the collegiate imperial system of his recent predecessors, he re-united the whole of the Roman world in his own hands, changed its religion formally and finally to Christianity, and shifted the capital of the Roman world definitively from Rome to the new eastern capital of Constantinople. -- Professor MacMullen is an acknowledged authority on the Roman world, and this study, first published in 1969 but not previously issued in Britain, is a lucid and sensitive study of the interplay of cultural, religious and secular developments on institutions and men. It demonstrates how there are tides in the affairs of men which sweep governments with them; Constantine is as much symbol as executor of the changes that swept the world during his reign. -- "The general reader or beginning student of late Rome will profit most by reading this lucidly written book. Scholars will enjoy it, too, as an attractively presented synthesis, impressionistic in the best sense, of ancient sources and modern contributions to Constantiniana." William G. Sinnige, American Historical Review -- CONTENTS -- The Role is Set -- In the East -- In the West -- The God of Battles -- Rome, and Licinius -- Rome, and the Church -- Eastward -- Constantinople -- Nicaea -- The Spirit of Constantine s Government -- The Court -- Assessment. ISBN 9780709946854 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338 1,5 x 13,7 x 21,3 cm, Broschiert / Paperback. Seller Inventory # 1179758

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