Eusebius' Life of Constantine: Eusebius

by Averil Cameron

2021-01-07 00:22:57

Eusebius'' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English ... Read more
Eusebius'' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on aseventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary.The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius'' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of whatEusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius'' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights. Less

Book Details

File size8.43 X 5.43 X 1.06 in
Print pages414
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date September 1, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198149170
Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Culture...

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