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CONSTANTINE: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
by Stephenson, Paul
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About This Item
NY: The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2010. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. First Printing (full number line). Quarter bound in publishers black cloth over ivory boards, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped publisher's medallion on cover. 8vo. 358 pp. Illustrated with 24 pages of color photographs. Includes extensive Bibliographical Essays and Index. This is a new, unopened, unmarked copy. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. . B&W and Color Photographs, B&W maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 358 pp .
Synopsis
This book is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes. Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. - Publisher.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6632
- Title
- CONSTANTINE: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
- Author
- Stephenson, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Rome;, Roman, Empire;, History;, Biography;, Christianity;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Roman History;
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