MacMullen Ramsay. Constantine

Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2014. — X, 263 p. — (Routledge Revivals).This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, much of it under the auspices of the Emperor, Constantine the Great.
Constantine was at the heart of the transition from pagan antiquity to Christendom. Rejecting the collegiate imperial system of his recent predecessors, he reunited the two halves of the Empire; established Christianity as its formal religion; and shifted the capital of the Roman world definitively to the city which would survive the collapse of the West and persevere for another thousand years, Constantinople.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
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