Constantine and Eusebius - Hardcover

Barnes, Timothy D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674165306 ISBN 13: 9780674165304

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1981

Synopsis

This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.

Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the whole range of Eusebius' writings, especially those composed before Constantine became emperor, and shows that many attitudes usually deemed typical of the "Constantinian revolution" were prevalent before the new Christian empire came into existence. This authoritative political and cultural history of the age of Constantine will prove essential to students and historians of the ancient world.

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy D. Barnes is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto.

Review:

A book that scholars would be very ill-advised to neglect on any topic treated in it. It is marked at every turn with Barnes' magnificent obsession with getting the record straight. Its implications for the role of Christianity in the Roman Empire are quite revolutionary.
--Peter Brown

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0674165306
• ISBN 13: 9780674165304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 466