{"product_id":"constantine-and-eusebius-9780674165311","title":"Constantine and Eusebius","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn original work of scholarship, rich in detail and minute researches, liberally supplied with fresh observations and new interpretations… The work is characterized by an astonishing mastery of evidence… Barnes is lucid and concise. * Classical Outlook *\u003cbr\u003eThis remarkable and exemplary work of scholarship will be read with pleasure and profit…a gripping and complex story told in fresh and lucid prose. * History Today *\u003cbr\u003eAlready an acknowledged expert on the history of the later Roman Empire and early Christianity, Barnes now offers a narrative account of the reigns of the two most important emperors after Augustus… The portrait of Constantine is realistic and convincing. (A main value of the book lies in its assessment of the intellectual, doctrinal, and political activities of the early Christians… Essential reading. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA book that scholars would be very ill-advised to neglect on any topic treated in it. It is marked at every turn with Barnes’ magnificent obsession with getting the record straight. Its implications for the role of Christianity in the Roman Empire are quite revolutionary. -- Peter Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: Constantine    1. Diocletian and Maximiam   2. Galerius and the Christians   3. The Rise of Constantine   4. The Christian Emperor of the West   5. Constantine and Licinius      PART TWO: Eusebius    6. Origen and Caesarea   7. Biblical Scholarship and the Chronicle   8. The History of the Church   9. Persecution   10. Eusebius as Apologist      PART THREE: The Christian Empire    11. Before Constantine   12. The Council of Nicaea   13. Ecclesiastical Politics   14. The New Monarchy   15. Eusebius and Constantine      Epilogue   Chronological Table   Editions and Translations of Eusebius   Abbreviations   Notes   Bibliography   Index of Passages of Eusebius Discussed   General Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49917765910871,"sku":"9780674165311","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674165311.jpg?v=1738449112","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constantine-and-eusebius-9780674165311","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}