Raymond van Dam

Roman Revolution of Constantine (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the establishment of a separate eastern Roman empire. Constantine's patronage of Christianity required both a new theology of the Christian Trinity and a new political image of a Christian emperor. Raymond Van Dam explores and interprets each of these events. His book complements accounts of the role of Christianity by highlighting ideological and cultural aspects of the transition to a post-Roman world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511339929
• Artikelnr.: 38183286

Autorenporträt

Raymond Van Dam is Professor of History and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History at the University of Michigan. A scholar of the later Roman empire, history, and religion, he is the author of numerous books, most recently Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia and Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. A Roman Empire without Rome: 1. Constantine's rescript to Hispellum
2. His favorite rooster: old Rome and new Rome
3. 'Hope in His name': the Flavian dynasty
4. Reading ahead
Part II. A Greek Roman Empire: 5. Constantine's dialogue with Orcistus
6. 'The most holy religion': petitioning the emperor
7. 'The Roman language': Latin and the Greek East
8. Falling water
Part III. Emperor and God: 9. 'Begotten of the gods': the imperial tetrarchy
10. 'Begotten from the Father': the Christian Trinity
11. 'Only-begotten son': history becomes theology
12. The search for the Christian doctrine of the emperor
Epilogue: one emperor.