The Age of Constantine the Great

by Jacob Burckhardt, Moses Hadas (Translator)

Overview

In the present work it has been the author's design to describe the remarkable half century from the accession of Diocletian to the death of Constantine in its quality as a period of transition. What was intended was not a history of the life and reign of Constantine, nor yet an encyclopedia of all worth-while information pertaining to this period. Rather were the significant and essential characteristics of the contemporary world to be outlined and shaped into a perspicuous sketch of the whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520046801
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/25/1983
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of both these fields. 

Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

I. The Imperial Power in the Third Century
II. Diocletian : His System of Adoptions and His Reign
III. Individual Provinces and Neighboring Countries: The West
IV. Individual Provinces and Neighboring Countries: The East
V. Paganism : Intermingling of Gods
VI. Immortality and Its Mysteries : The Daimonization of Paganism
VII. Senescence of Ancient Life and Its Culture
VIII. The Persecution of Christians : Constantine and the Succession
IX. Constantine and the Church
X. Court, Administration, and Army : Constantinople, Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem

Addenda et Corrigenda
On the Ancient Sources
Chronology of the Emperors
Index