Lenski, Noel
Constantine and the Cities
- ISBN 13:
- 9780812223682
- author:
- Lenski, Noel
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 25.15 x 17.78 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Ancient, Rome,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics explores how Christianity rose to become the religion of state in the Roman Empire. This book examines the complex relationship between Constantine's rule and his subjects' efforts to understand religious truth. By analyzing coins, inscriptions, legal texts, letters, orations, and histories, Noel Lenski reveals how Constantine and his subjects used government instruments to negotiate authority over the empire's religion. The author sheds light on the interplay of signals between ruler and subject, mapping out the terrain within which Constantine nudged his subjects towards conversion. Through a nuanced study of the dialogic nature of Constantine's power, Lenski uncovers the ways in which the emperor's rule was built in the space between his ambitions for the empire and his subjects' understandings of religious truth.
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