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Was There a Constantinian Revolution?

    History

  • 2009

Most modern accounts of Constantine, whatever their interpretation of the emperor, have given a central place in the logical structure of their arguments to Lactantius’ political and military…

Division of Empire

Constantine the Great died on 22 May ad 337. He left behind three sons, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman empire, and how to divide it…

War and Peace

    V. Vadi

    Law, History

    Warfare in the Roman World

  • 2020

This treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of…

The Reign of Constantine

Birth and Early Career The details of Constantine’s birth are enigmatic. We know that he was born in or near the Moesian city of Naissus (Ni.s: see Map 1) and that he was the eldest son of Flavius…

The Roman Revolution of Constantine: INDEX

Introduction Part I. A Roman Empire without Rome: 1. Constantine's rescript to Hispellum 2. His favorite rooster: old Rome and new Rome 3. 'Hope in His name': the Flavian dynasty 4. Reading ahead…

Constantine and Eusebius

PART ONE: Constantine 1. Diocletian and Maximiam 2. Galerius and the Christians 3. The Rise of Constantine 4. The Christian Emperor of the West 5. Constantine and Licinius PART TWO: Eusebius 6.…

Lactantius and the Succession to Diocletian

L ACTANTIUS De mortibus persecutorum 18.13-14 is cited as evidence that the emperor known as Maximinus Daza was the nephew of Galerius.I The passage in fact says nothing of the sort, and attentive…