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The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine - From Ad 306 to Ad 337 (Paperback)
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The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine - From Ad 306 to Ad 337 (Paperback)
Series: Christian Roman Empire
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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Constantine the Great is one of those rare historical figures who
is nearly as controversial today as he was in his own time. Lauded,
both then and now, as a military hero who ended the brutal
persecutions of Christians and as the first Roman emperor to
himself embrace Christianity, Constantine is just as often vilified
as a destructive innovator, a coddler of heretics, and a tyrannical
hypocrite with the blood of his own family on his hands. The Life
of the Blessed Emperor Constantine was penned shortly after the
emperor's death in AD 337 by the great Church historian Eusebius
Pamphilus, bishop of C]sarea. Though criticized as mere panegyric
lionizing Constantine's virtues while ignoring his flaws,
Eusebius's Life is nonetheless the most substantial and detailed
biography of the first Christian emperor to come down to us from
antiquity. The work is also the sole source for several key
episodes in Constantine's life--including the emperor's famous
vision of a cross in the sky accompanied by the words, "Conquer by
this."
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