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Noel Lenski is Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. He is author of Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. and coauthor of The Romans: From Village to Empire and A Brief History of the Romans.
List of contents
List of Maps
Introduction. Many Faces of Constantine
PART I. CONSTANTINE'S SELF-PRESENTATION
Chapter 1. Constantine Develops
Chapter 2. Constantinian Constants
Chapter 3. Constantine and the Christians: Controlling the Message
PART II. THE POWER OF PETITIONS
Chapter 4. Approaching Constantine: The Orcistus Dossier
Chapter 5. The Exigencies of Dialogue: Hispellum
Chapter 6. Constantine's Cities in the West:
Nomen VenerandumChapter 7. Constantine's Cities in the East: Peer Polity Interaction
PART III. RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT CITY
Chapter 8. Redistributing Wealth
Chapter 9. Building Churches
Chapter 10. Empowering Bishops
PART IV. ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES TO CONSTANTINE
Chapter 11. Engaging Cities
Chapter 12. Resisting Cities
Chapter 13. Opposing Christians: Donatists and Caecilianists
Chapter 14. Complex Cities: Antioch and Alexandria
Epilogue
List of Sigla and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Noel Lenski
Summary
Roman Emperor Constantine raised Christianity from a minority religion to imperial status, but his religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski demonstrates how the emperor and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire.
