Название: Constantine the Emperor
Автор: David Potter
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199755868
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Для сайта: LitMy.ru
Размер: 19,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal rebellions and external threats by Persians and Goths.