Research Catalog

Title

The life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine : from AD 306 to AD 337 / by Eusebius Pamphilus.

Author

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340

Publication

Merchantville, NJ : Evolution Pub., 2009.

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Details

Description

xl, 219 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Constantine the Great is one of those rare historical figures who is nearly as controversial today as he was in his own time. Lauded, both then and now, as a military hero who ended the brutal persecutions of Christians and as the first Roman emperor to himself embrace Christianity, Constantine is just as often vilified as a destructive innovator, a coddler of heretics, and a tyrannical hypocrite with the blood of his own family on his hands. The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine was penned shortly after the emperor's death in AD 337 by the great Church historian Eusebius Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. Though criticized as mere panegyric lionizing Constantine's virtues while ignoring his flaws, Eusebius's Life is nonetheless the most substantial and detailed biography of the first Christian emperor to come down to us from antiquity. The work is also the sole source for several key episodes in Constantine's life including the emperor s famous vision of a cross in the sky accompanied by the words, Conquer by this. This anonymous translation of this important work was originally published in 1845 by Bagster and Sons and includes an introduction, index, updated references, and a further reading list."--

Series Statement

Christian Roman Empire series ; v. 8

Uniform Title

• Life of Constantine
• Christian Roman Empire series v. 8.

Alternative Title

Life of Constantine

Subject

• Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 > Early works to 1800
• 306-337
• Emperors > Rome > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Rome > History > Constantine I, the Great, 306-337 > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies
• Early works

Note

• Includes a brief biography of Eusebius excerpted almost entirely from Smith and Wace's A dictionary of Christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines (1880) in place of the two page introduction in the original 1845 publication.
• Originally published as The life of the blessed Emperor Constantine : from 306 to 337 A.D. : in four books: London : Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1845.

Bibliography (note)

• "2009 edition bibliography and further reading": pages vii-viii.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781889758930
• 1889758930

LCCN

^^2009034613

OCLC

• 277200943
• SCSB-12784655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library