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Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor
Paul Stephenson
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Paperback. An authoritative life of the first Christian Roman emperor and founder of Constantinople. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 x 8pp plate sections. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
286g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857381668
SKU
V9780857381668
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About Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Durham and a specialist in the early and middle Byzantine periods. His publications include The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer (2003) and Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 9001204 (2000), both for Cambridge University Press. Stephenson has researched and taught in the UK, ... Read more
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