From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views

Provides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English.From Constantine to Julian covers an age of major transition in Europe, which saw the establishment of Rome as a Christian Empire and a period of recidivism under Julian.Texts include are the anonymous lives of Constantine, relevant sections of Aurelius Victor and 'Eumenius',...
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Provides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English.From Constantine to Julian covers an age of major transition in Europe, which saw the establishment of Rome as a Christian Empire and a period of recidivism under Julian.Texts include are the anonymous lives of Constantine, relevant sections of Aurelius Victor and 'Eumenius', Libanius' Oration 59, the Passion of Artemius and a selection of papyri and inscriptions. Most of this material has not previously been translated into English: students will now have direct access to the most important sources for the period which is studied in courses on classical antiquity, on early medieval Europe and on ecclesiastical history.