This volume brings together some of the English-speaking world's leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. Focusing on the questions that have for so long intrigued historians, classicists, and theologians, the papers collected in this volume prove once again that Constantine is not so much a figure from the remote past, but an individual whose legacy continues to shape our present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes on Contributors
Foreword - Tom Papademetriou
Abbreviations
Introduction
A. Edward Siecienski
Part One: Debates
Constantine and religious extremism
H.A. Drake
The significance of the Edict of Milan
Noel Lenski
Part Two: Historiography
The sources for our sources: Eusebius and Lactantius on Constantine in 312-313
Raymond Van Dam
Constantine in the pagan memory
Mark Edwards
Writing Constantine
David Potter
Part Three: Legacy
The Eusebian valorization of violence and Constantine's wars for God
George E. Demacopoulos
Constantine the Pious
Peter J. Leithart
