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Course A107: From Late Antiquity to Byzantium

Constantine and Constantinople

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Dates

Sources

Constantine's legislation (in Eusebius and in Cod. Theod.)

Eusebius, The History of the Church Books 8-10

Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors ( also trans,. J. Creed, 1984)

Optatus, Against the donatists. Trans. and ed. Mark Edwards, TTH 27 ( Liverpool University Press, 1997)

Zosimus, New History (the pagan viewpoint)trans. R. Ridley, (Melbourne, 1982) 1814 translation online

S. N. C. Lieu and D. Montserrat, From Constantine to Julian (London, 1996)

Constantine and Christendom : The oration to the saints, The Greek and Latin accounts of the discovery of the cross, The edict of Constantine to Pope Silvester/ translated with notes and introduction by Mark Edwards (Liverpool University Press, 2003).

Constantine

Constantinople

R. Krautheimer, Three Christian Capitals (1982)

Sarah Bassett, The urban image of late antique Constantinople (Cambridge, 2004)

See the Serpent Column

See the horses at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice

Rome

See Arch of Constantine , and Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine

For churches see 1

On St Peter's see W. Tronzo, St Peter's in the Vatican (Cambridge, 2005)

Jerusalem

Martin Biddle, The tomb of Christ (Stroud : Sutton, 1999).

For the later stories see

S. N. C. Lieu and D. Montserrat edd., Constantine, History, Historiography and Legend (London, 1998)

G. W. Boersock ed. Lorenzo Valla, On the Donation of Constantine (Cambrdige, Mass., 2007)

For a class handout including key sources, more key dates and events and major reforms, click here.

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