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 Free Download Constantine the Great: And the Christian Revolution By G. P. Baker 2001 | 378 Pages | ISBN: 0815411588 | PDF | 17 MB Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to power―an empire where feudalism was replacing the old senatorial government and the lands of the empire were split into two regions. It was also a place where customs from the East were replacing the old Roman values, preparing the way for the Byzantine Empire. Baker describes Constantine's unique conversion (which apparently did not prevent him from sacrificing to idols), his wars to control first the Roman army and then the Germans and the lands of Asia Minor, and finally the founding of Constantinople and the establishment of the monarchial system that dominated Europe for over a thousand years.  Free Download Constantine and the Conversion of Europe by Arnold Jones, Charlton Griffin, Audio Connoisseur English | 2009 | ISBN: B002ER24ME | 8 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 Mb The turmoil, both physical and mental, which the Roman Empire underwent during the chaotic third century, resulted in a Greco-Roman culture which was essentially exhausted. For a thousand years this culture had spread itself over the Mediterranean world in roughly the same recognizable architecture, law, art and religion. By the end of Diocletian's reign in the opening years of the fourth century, the pagan world had collapsed into the arms of a multicultural religious movement which had spread from the eastern Mediterranean. These were the "mystery religions" which had been in competition with one another for a century.By the time of Constantine, they had spread everywhere within the empire. But one of these religions, Christianity, was chosen by the young emperor. His decision changed the course of history. By putting the bureaucratic weight of the empire behind the Christian church, Constantine brought the new religion into prominence. He gave it the breathing spell it needed to vanquish its rivals and establish its political dominance. But hardly had Constantine's proclamation been made before the new religion began to tear itself apart in a series of recriminations and heresies. [center] Telegram Join Here  Free Download Seán Ó'Brógáin, "Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith" English | 2016 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1472813812 | PDF | 101,5 mb 1,700 years ago, the emperor Constantine marched on Rome to free Italy from the tyrant Maxentius and reunify the Roman Empire. The army marched from Gaul in the spring of AD 312 and fought its way across the Empire. The defining moment of the campaign was the battle of the Milvian Bridge. ![The Tragedy of Empire From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy [Audiobook]](https://i122.fastpic.org/big/2023/0916/9d/ccaca4a7cda0500f1ee21d79cc44b49d.jpeg) Free Download The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy (Audiobook) English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B093HYHDTQ | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 11m | 843 MB Author: Michael Kulikowski | Narrator: Simon Shepherd The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian's rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited.
 Free Download Lea Niccolai, "Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power: Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire " English | ISBN: 1009299298 | 2023 | 348 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.
 Free Download John Haldon, "The De Thematibus ('on the themes') of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Translated with introductory chapters and notes " English | ISBN: 1800859988 | 2022 | 296 pages | PDF | 11 MB The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the 'themes') of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. A mix of historical geography, imperial propaganda, historical information and legend or myth drawn from ancient, Hellenistic as well as Roman and late Roman sources, it was one of the emperor's earliest works, although the extent to which he was its author remains debated. Its purpose, and the emperor's aims in commissioning or writing it, are equally unclear, since it offers neither an accurate historical account of the evolution of the themata nor does it appear to draw on available administrative material that would have been available to its writer. It has remained until now untranslated into English and thus inaccessible to many, in particular to students at all levels both within and outside the field of Byzantine Studies, as well as non-specialist readers. This  Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Andrew J. Pottenger English | November 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1032105151 | True EPUB | 274 pages | 2 MB This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the 'Donatist schism' and 'Arian controversy'.  Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) by Eric M. Meyers, Mark A. Chancey English | September 25, 2012 | ISBN: 0300141793, 030020583X | True EPUB | 400 pages | 26.1 MB  Constantine Porphyrogennetos : The Book of Ceremonies by Anne Moffatt and Maxeme Tall English | 2017 | ISBN: 1876503424 | 912 Pages | True PDF | 115 MB  English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780813188799 | 594 pages | True EPUB | 1.04 MB Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a quintessential nineteenth-century American scientist and naturalist. Exalted by some, cursed by others, Rafinesque gave Latin names to over 6,700 plant species, was acknowledged by Darwin for his early insights into biological variation, and is frequently mentioned in the great natural history archives. Yet he has been almost forgotten in our own day. During his long career, which included some five years as an innovative professor at Transylvania University in Kentucky, Rafinesque's colorful and sometimes difficult personality led to troubles with his colleagues. In Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, the first full-length biography of this brilliant, original, and misunderstood naturalist, Leonard Warren presents a fair and surprising look at Rafinesque's life and contributions to the world of science. |
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