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The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) (Paperback)
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The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt's brilliant study, first
published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and
presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture
of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study.
This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote
history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of
transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a
familiar order of things visibly died and was supplanted by a new.
Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the
age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old
institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown
senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the
peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and
revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was
spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and
authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that
their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments
have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt's insight
led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the
transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his
book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated.
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