Jonathan Bardill has held fellowships at the University of Oxford, Dumbarton Oaks, Newcastle University and Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul. He has contributed articles to numerous archaeological and historical journals, including the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Roman Archaeology and Dumbarton Oaks Papers, as well as several edited volumes, including Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity and The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. He is the author of the reference work Brickstamps of Constantinople.
Introduction
1. A change of image
2. Emperors and divine protectors
3. The saving ruler and the Logos-Nomos
4. The hippodrome procession
5. The symbol from the sun, the standard, and the sarcophagus
6. The Roman Colossus
7. Constantine and Christianity
8. Sol and Christianity
9. Constantine as Christ
Epilogue.