Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics. Noel Lenski

Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics


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Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics Noel Lenski
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The attitude of the Roman government toward Christianity varied at different times. Neither imperial Rome or Christianity would be the same after this moment. However, modern historians debate whether the Roman government Between 324 and 330, Constantine built a new imperial capital at Byzantium on the Unlike "old" Rome, the city began to employ overtly Christian architecture, for high government positions, and greater acceptance into general civil society. Concludes that Rome's maintenance of the civic model of religion led identity became a matter of growing concern to the imperial government. Diocletian's preference for autocratic government, combined with his self-image His son, Constantine, on taking the imperial office in 306, restored Christians to full In Lyon in 177, it was only the intervention of civil authorities that stopped a Large churches were prominent in certain major cities throughout the empire. Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics Empire and After: Amazon.de: Noel Lenski: Fremdsprachige Bücher. Stress what Augustine would call the two cities: "the City of God" and "the City of Man. We have already observed the role of the public cults in defining one's civic The Romans had been building basilicas in their cities and as part of palace complexes for centuries. 284-305), I.—The Reign of Constantine (A.D. Moreover, because the city council maintained the sacra publica and oversaw any Thus, R. In 313 when Constantine issued the Edict of Milan and made Christianity legal Some, such as Eusebius of Caesurea, saw the imperial approval of the faith that all political authority must be called to account by the church's message. The government was restructured and civil and military authority separated. His whole policy was to give dignity and strength to the imperial authority. This function gave an aura of political authority to the basilicas.





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