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Constantine and the Cities - Imperial Authority and Civic Politics (Paperback)
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Constantine and the Cities - Imperial Authority and Civic Politics (Paperback)
Series: Empire and After
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Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a
religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire
to become the religion of state-a feat largely credited to
Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this
minority religion to imperial status using the traditional tools of
governance, yet his proclamation of his new religious orientation
was by no means unambiguous. His coins and inscriptions, public
monuments, and pronouncements sent unmistakable signals to his
non-Christian subjects that he was willing not only to accept their
beliefs about the nature of the divine but also to incorporate
traditional forms of religious expression into his own
self-presentation. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski
attempts to reconcile these apparent contradictions by examining
the dialogic nature of Constantine's power and how his rule was
built in the space between his ambitions for the empire and his
subjects' efforts to further their own understandings of religious
truth. Focusing on cities and the texts and images produced by
their citizens for and about the emperor, Constantine and the
Cities uncovers the interplay of signals between ruler and subject,
mapping out the terrain within which Constantine nudged his
subjects in the direction of conversion. Reading inscriptions,
coins, legal texts, letters, orations, and histories, Lenski
demonstrates how Constantine and his subjects used the instruments
of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the
empire.
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