The Roman Revolution of Constantine - Raymond Van Dam
The Roman Revolution of Constantine - Raymond Van Dam The reign of the emperor Constantine (306 – 337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus,…
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The Roman Revolution of Constantine - Raymond Van Dam
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306 – 337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the establishment of a separate eastern Roman empire. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East.
Constantine's patronage of Christianity required both a new theology of the Christian Trinity a