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The Tetrarchy : The first Tetrarchy Jovians and Herculians The Caesars at war The army of the Tetrarchs The Great Persecution Lactantius : On the deaths of the persecutors. The unconquered emperor and his Divine Patron : The crisis of empire The emperor and the army The Roman theology of victory The unconquered emperor and the Sun Aurelian Christ the true Sun. The rise of Christianity : Women and the spread of Christianity Christianity as an urban phenomenon Christian exceptionalism and martyrdom Early Christian attitudes to warfare Christians in the Roman army Military martyrs and warrior saints. Religion in the Later Roman Empire : Roman state religion and imperial cults The cult of the standards Private religious devotion and cults The mysteries of Mithras. Xxv, 358 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps 24 cm Originally published: London : Quercus, 2009.

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca.

Constantine - I, - Emperor of Rome, -337.

"Paul Stephenson offers an account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the historically crucial idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. This site, the ancient trading colony of Byzantium, became the city of Constantine, Constantinople, a new Christian capital set apart from Rome's pagan past. He founded a new capital city nearby on the Bosphorus, where Europe meets Asia.

Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire, and presided over the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, at Nicaea in 325. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. He converted to Christianity and ended persecution of his co-religionists with the defeat in 324 of his last rival, Licinius. Inscribing the sign on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove the followers of his rival Maxentius into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. 'A cross-shaped trophy of light' appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, generally translated as 'By this sign conquer'. According to Constantine's first biographer, the bishop Eusebius, on the eve of the decisive battle, at Rome's Milvian Bridge, he had a vision. In 312, Constantine, one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire, marched on Rome to establish his sole control of its western half. This work surveys the life and legacy of the first Christian Roman emperor, describing the vision that inspired his religious conversion and subsequent conquest of the imperial capital, his founding of Constantinople, and his role in promoting a unified Christian Europe.