The Life and Legacy of Constantine (eBook, ePUB)

Traditions through the Ages
Redaktion: Bjornlie, M. Shane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Interpretations of the motives and sincerity of Constantine's conversion to Christianity have characterized explanations of everything from the religious culture of the late Roman state to the dynamics of ecclesiastical politics. What receives less-frequent attention is the fact that our modern appreciation of Constantine is itself a direct result of the manner in which Constantine's memory was constructed over the course of centuries. The book examines Constantine and his memory in the fourth century; the reception of Constantine in early-medieval contexts from the sixth century to the Carolingian period; and Constantine's representation from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317025658
• Artikelnr.: 49376724

Autorenporträt

M. Shane Bjornlie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome (2011) and Associate Professor of Roman and Late Antique History in the Department of History at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Bjornlie / Imagining Constantine
then and now
Van Dam / The reception of classical pastoral in the age of Constantine
Chinn / Platonism in the palace: the character of Constantine's theology
DePalma Digeser / What hath Constantine wrought?
Drake / Constantine and Silvester in the Actus Silvestri
Sessa / Constantine in the 6th century: from Constantinople to Tours
Bjornlie / Back to the future: Constantine and the last Roman Emperor
Baxter Wolf / Charlemagne: a new Constantine?
Emerick / Dante
Constantine the Christian
and the illegitimate donation of Constantine
Deen Schildgen / 'If possession be Poysen': endowment
sophistic and the legacy of Constantine in late medieval England
Jahner / Constantine in late medieval western art: just the son of a holy mother?
Jaritz / Constantine and the Renovatio Romae in the Renaissance and Baroque
Gorse.