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Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor (2009)

por Paul Stephenson

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Surveys the life and legacy of the first Christian Roman emperor, describing the vision that inspired his religious conversion and subsequent conquest of the imperial capital, his founding of Constantinople, and his role in promoting a unified Christian Europe.
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Beklediğim kadar iyi bir kitap değildi. Çok fazla tekrar vardı ve çoğu bölümünü okumak çok sıkıcıydı. Yine de Constantinus dönemine ait bazı olayları kavradığım için çok kötü puan vermedim. ( )
  Tobizume | Jun 9, 2020 |
4 solid stars due to the following: 1) it's easy to read; 2) the author's thesis is clearly stated and he sticks to supporting it throughout the book, 3) it's balanced - although much of it is about the early years of Christianity, the author is not pro-Christian or anti-Christian, and 4) his view on why the emperor Constantine championed Christianity is quite original. I will just say it involves the military's role in making or breaking emperors, what the military's true interests were (mostly booty & plunder), and how Constantine brilliantly convinced them that one particular god was capable of delivering victories. The author supports his argument by examining primary accounts, statues, architecture, coinage and art. Really excellent if you are interested in how Christianity got its big break. ( )
  chas69 | May 1, 2020 |
Other than Jesus Christ and Paul, Constantine is the most important figure of early Christianity. I liked the way the author uses archeology to confirm his theories and ideas. ( )
  jerry-book | Jan 26, 2016 |
NCLA Review - Rather than the barest of facts regarding Constantine’s life, historian Paul Stephenson provides a narrative of Constantine’s life in a broader context. “This work, then, narrative without notes, is as much story as history.” Not entirely intended for a scholarly audience, Stephenson hopes to attract a wider readership. The author relies on contemporary works, though flawed from bias or altered, such as Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea; Christian writers Lactanius and Cyprian; and others. Stephenson thinks that “...it is impossible to write a genuine biography of any pre-modern figure.” The author provides photographs of places, coinage, art, sculpture and architecture that describe the life and times of Constantine. Stephenson actively advocates some major points: 1) Constantine’s conversion was not the reason for the rapid growth of Christianity in the fourth century; women were the catalyst. 2) Constantine’s conversion was not a revelation inspired by a vision, but a lifelong process. 3) The military and the interaction of faith and power in a new Christian Roman Empire were important and 4) the establishment of Constantinople as his victory city was an influential choice. The author includes a glossary, abbreviations, primary sources, bibliographical essays, a helpful index, maps and stemmata. Although interesting, well written and researched, this is not a book that the average church library patron would probably pick up. Most libraries do not have the money to spend on historical biographies of this sort. Rating: 3 —BS ( )
  ncla | Oct 7, 2011 |
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In a word, the historical scholar, and quite specifically the medievalist, has a twofold duty: one to his own specialty, to his own chosen field of scholarship, where he can justifiably claim expertise, and the other to society which after all maintains him and which makes it possible for him to apply himself with singular zeal to his own research. But this duty to society makes it imperative for him to return to it the fruits of his own research work and learning by putting his specialist work into a broader perspective. In many instances he will do this all the better and with greater success if he tries to apply all his methods, techniques and topics to periods antecedent to and succeeding those which originally fired his research enthusiasm.

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