When our world became Christian, 312-394 / Paul Veyne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
By: Veyne, Paul.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2010Description: vi, 248 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780745644981 (hbk.); 0745644988 (hbk.); 9780745644998 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien, (312-394). English Subject(s): Church history -- 4th centuryDDC classification: 270.2
Contents:
Constantine : the saviour of humanity -- Christianity : a masterpiece -- The church : another masterpiece -- The dream of the Milvian Bridge : Constantine's faith and his conversion -- The motives, both major and minor, for Constantine's conversion -- Constantine, the church's "president" -- An ambivalent century, with an empire at once pagan and Christian -- Christianity wavers, then triumphs -- A partial and mixed state religion : the fate of the Jews -- Was there an ideology? -- Does Europe have Christian roots? -- Appendix: Polytheisms and monolatry in ancient Judaism.
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"First published in French as Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-241) and index.
Constantine : the saviour of humanity -- Christianity : a masterpiece -- The church : another masterpiece -- The dream of the Milvian Bridge : Constantine's faith and his conversion -- The motives, both major and minor, for Constantine's conversion -- Constantine, the church's "president" -- An ambivalent century, with an empire at once pagan and Christian -- Christianity wavers, then triumphs -- A partial and mixed state religion : the fate of the Jews -- Was there an ideology? -- Does Europe have Christian roots? -- Appendix: Polytheisms and monolatry in ancient Judaism.
Translated from the French.
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