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By Noel Lenski

The Cambridge significant other to the Age of Constantine deals scholars a finished one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his occasions. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey obtainable to all audiences, it additionally achieves a degree of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that might be welcomed by means of the specialists. the amount is split into 5 sections that learn political historical past, faith, social and monetary heritage, artwork, and international family members throughout the reign of Constantine, who advised the Roman Empire on a path parallel together with his personal own improvement. every one bankruptcy examines the intimate interaction among emperor and empire, and among a strong character and his international. jointly, they express how either have been collectively affected in ways in which formed the area of overdue Antiquity or even impact our personal global today.

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