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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Veyne (Collège de France)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9780745644981ISBN 10: 0745644988 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 19 February 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1 Constantine: The Saviour of Humanity 1 2 Christianity: A Masterpiece 17 3 The Church: Another Masterpiece 33 4 The Dream of the Milvian Bridge: Constantine’s Faith and his Conversion 46 5 The Motives, Both Major and Minor, for Constantine’s Conversion 58 6 Constantine, the Church’s ‘President’ 73 7 An Ambivalent Century, with an Empire at Once Pagan and Christian 84 8 Christianity Wavers, Then Triumphs 98 9 A Partial and Mixed State Religion: The Fate of the Jews 107 10 Was There an Ideology? 123 11 Does Europe Have Christian Roots? 138 Appendix: Polytheisms and Monolatry in Ancient Judaism 150 Notes 177 Supplementary Notes 236 Index 242ReviewsThis is a vigorously written interpretative essay about the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity by a selfprofessed unbeliever. Veyne, always as sensitive to the process of writing history as he is to the study of the past itself, approaches the early history of Christianity as an avant-garde religion. He examines the implications of its appropriation by the state with great energy and in an uncompromising manner. Rosamond McKitterick Author InformationPaul Veyne, Collège de France Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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