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" Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge / "
Raymond Van Dam
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BL
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697585
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b519774
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| Main Entry
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Van Dam, Raymond
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| Title & Author
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Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge /\ Raymond Van Dam
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2011
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xiii, 296 pages :: maps,; 24 cm
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110709643X
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: 9781107096431
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Foreword: visions of Constantine -- The afterlife of Constantine -- Ecclesiastical histories -- Constantine's memories -- Eusebius' commentary -- Shaping memories in the west -- Rome after the battle -- Backward and forward -- Remembering Maxentius -- Back word: the bridge
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| Abstract
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"Constantine was the first Christian emperor in the Roman empire. Before his victory in 312 at the battle of the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, he claimed to have seen a vision of a cross in the sky. The book analyzes the legends about the battle and the vision, from the later Roman empire to the later medieval period. By rehabilitating the significance of Maxentius, the losing emperor, this book also emphasizes the competing ideas at stake about Roman emperorship, the contours of the empire,and the place of Rome"--
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Constantine, I,-337
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Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius,d. 312
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Saxa Rubra, Battle of, Italy, 312
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| Dewey Classification
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937/.08
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DG315.V36 2011
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