The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) write by Jacob Burckhardt. This book was released on 2018-12-14. The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Constantine
Constantine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantine write by Paul Stephenson. This book was released on 2010-06-10. Constantine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “knowledgeable account” of the emperor who brought Christianity to Rome “provides valuable insight into Constantine’s era” (Kirkus Reviews). “By this sign conquer.” So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome for themselves. Constantine led Christianity and its adherents out of the shadow of persecution. He united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire, raising a new city center in the east. When barbarian hordes consumed Rome itself, Constantinople remained as a beacon of Roman Christianity. Constantine is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors—written by a richly gifted historian. 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 idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.” —Publishers Weekly
Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantine the Great write by Elizabeth Hartley. This book was released on 2006. Constantine the Great available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring a series of multi-disciplinary essays and a fully illustrated catalogue of objects, this book is a contribution to the study of the material and visual evidence for Constantine's reign. The geographic range for this book is the Roman Empire, with the focus mainly on the Western Empire.
The Age of Constantine the Great
The Age of Constantine the Great - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Constantine the Great write by Jacob Burckhardt. This book was released on 1949. The Age of Constantine the Great available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Eusebius' Life of Constantine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eusebius' Life of Constantine write by Eusebius. This book was released on 1999-09-10. Eusebius' Life of Constantine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
