Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- Acknowledgements and Editorial Note
- List of Contributors
- Chapter One The Educated Traveller’s Guide
- Chapter Two Pope Leo I the Great (ca. 400–461, r. 440–61 CE) at the Basilica di S. Pietro and the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Chapter Three Saint Dominic de Guzmán (ca. 1170–1221 CE ) at the Basilicas of S. Marco al Campidoglio, San Sisto Vecchio, and Santa Sabina
- Chapter Four John Keats (1795–1821 CE ) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822 CE ) at the Keats-Shelley House and the Cimitero Acattolico
- Chapter Five Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE ) at the Teatro di Pompeo, Rostra, Tempio del Divo Giulio, and Basilica Giulia
- Chapter Six Empress Livia (58 BCE –29 CE ) on the Palatino
- Chapter Seven Emperor Hadrian (76–138 CE ) at Castel Sant’Angelo, the Pantheon, and the Tempio di Venere e Roma
- Chapter Eight Pope Clement I of Rome (ca. 35–99 or 101, r. 88–99 or 101 CE ) at the Basilica di San Clemente
- Chapter Nine Emperor Constantine (ca. 277–337, r. 324–37 CE) at the Arco di Costantino, the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, and the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati
- Chapter Ten Pope Paul III (1468–1549, r. 1534–49 CE ), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), and the Campidoglio
- Chapter Eleven St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–74 CE ) at Santa Sabina, the Angelicum, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
- Chapter Twelve Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702–35 CE) at the Basilica di S. Pietro, Palazzo Muti, and the Basilica dei XII Santi Apostoli
- Chapter Thirteen Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644, r. 1623–44 CE ) at the Basilica di S. Pietro, Fontana del Tritone, and Palazzo Barberini
- Chapter Fourteen John Henry Newman (1801–90 CE ) at the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, Basilica di Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, and the Chiesa di S. Giorgio in Velabro
- Chapter Fifteen Philip Neri (1515–95 CE) at the Catacombe di S. Sebastiano, the Chiesa di San Girolamo della Carità, the Basilica di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, and the Chiesa Nuova
- Chapter Sixteen Pope Julius II (1443–1513, r. 1503–13 CE) at the Basilica di San Pietro, the Musei Vaticani, and Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli
- Chapter Seventeen St. Peter (ca. 10–64 CE ) and St. Paul (5–67 CE ) at the Basilica di San Pietro, the Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura, and the Abbazia delle Tre Fontane
- Chapter Eighteen Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520 CE ), Tommaso “Fedra” Inghirami (1470–1516 CE ), and Pope Julius II (1443–1513, r. 1503–13 CE ) at the Stanza della Segnatura (1508–11 CE )
- Chapter Nineteen Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564 CE )at the Cappella Sistina
- Appendix A Concordance of Place Names
- Appendix B Timeline of the People and Places Mentioned in this Volume
- Index
Chapter Nine - Emperor Constantine (ca. 277–337, r. 324–37 CE) at the Arco di Costantino, the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, and the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- Acknowledgements and Editorial Note
- List of Contributors
- Chapter One The Educated Traveller’s Guide
- Chapter Two Pope Leo I the Great (ca. 400–461, r. 440–61 CE) at the Basilica di S. Pietro and the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Chapter Three Saint Dominic de Guzmán (ca. 1170–1221 CE ) at the Basilicas of S. Marco al Campidoglio, San Sisto Vecchio, and Santa Sabina
- Chapter Four John Keats (1795–1821 CE ) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822 CE ) at the Keats-Shelley House and the Cimitero Acattolico
- Chapter Five Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE ) at the Teatro di Pompeo, Rostra, Tempio del Divo Giulio, and Basilica Giulia
- Chapter Six Empress Livia (58 BCE –29 CE ) on the Palatino
- Chapter Seven Emperor Hadrian (76–138 CE ) at Castel Sant’Angelo, the Pantheon, and the Tempio di Venere e Roma
- Chapter Eight Pope Clement I of Rome (ca. 35–99 or 101, r. 88–99 or 101 CE ) at the Basilica di San Clemente
- Chapter Nine Emperor Constantine (ca. 277–337, r. 324–37 CE) at the Arco di Costantino, the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, and the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati
- Chapter Ten Pope Paul III (1468–1549, r. 1534–49 CE ), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), and the Campidoglio
- Chapter Eleven St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–74 CE ) at Santa Sabina, the Angelicum, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
- Chapter Twelve Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702–35 CE) at the Basilica di S. Pietro, Palazzo Muti, and the Basilica dei XII Santi Apostoli
- Chapter Thirteen Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644, r. 1623–44 CE ) at the Basilica di S. Pietro, Fontana del Tritone, and Palazzo Barberini
- Chapter Fourteen John Henry Newman (1801–90 CE ) at the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, Basilica di Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, and the Chiesa di S. Giorgio in Velabro
- Chapter Fifteen Philip Neri (1515–95 CE) at the Catacombe di S. Sebastiano, the Chiesa di San Girolamo della Carità, the Basilica di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, and the Chiesa Nuova
- Chapter Sixteen Pope Julius II (1443–1513, r. 1503–13 CE) at the Basilica di San Pietro, the Musei Vaticani, and Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli
- Chapter Seventeen St. Peter (ca. 10–64 CE ) and St. Paul (5–67 CE ) at the Basilica di San Pietro, the Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura, and the Abbazia delle Tre Fontane
- Chapter Eighteen Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520 CE ), Tommaso “Fedra” Inghirami (1470–1516 CE ), and Pope Julius II (1443–1513, r. 1503–13 CE ) at the Stanza della Segnatura (1508–11 CE )
- Chapter Nineteen Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564 CE )at the Cappella Sistina
- Appendix A Concordance of Place Names
- Appendix B Timeline of the People and Places Mentioned in this Volume
- Index
Summary
The Last Pagan and First Christian Emperor
Constantine is one of history's most influential figures. His world was that of late antiquity and the early Christian centuries, an interesting and complex world that he made more interesting still. For it was Constantine who gave Christianity the support and tools needed to be transformed into a world religion. It was he who put a definitive stamp on an outline of European political geography, where east became East and west became West in a way that seems obvious today even if it was not in his own day. One of the essential things that made Constantine influential within both the city of Rome and the Roman Empire at large was his rare ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities before others did. Not only was he consistently ahead of friends and rivals alike in his plans for war, politics, religion, social reform and much else, but he would also stop at nothing in order to get his way, even when the personal costs and risks to himself were immense. Not unlike the emperor Augustus of some centuries before, his reign was long and assertive enough to be truly transformative. And not unlike Augustus, he made a massive contribution to the heritage of the city of Rome, as well.
Birth and Upbringing in a World of War and Politics
Born in the 270s to the future co-emperor Constantius I Chlorus (ca. 250–306) and his common-law wife Helena, Constantine likely spent his early years in the Balkans, where his father held the post of provincial Roman governor. The lives of both parents had changed dramatically by their son's fifteen birthday and perhaps even earlier. By 288 Constantius had accepted a new post in the western province of Gaul, a career move that turned out to be permanent as he climbed the military and political ladder of the later Roman Empire to become junior emperor of Rome's western provinces in 293. Helena did not join Constantius in his move westward. Indeed, as early as the year 288 but certainly by 293, she was abandoned in favour of his new wife, the politcally connected Theodora.
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- People and Places of the Roman PastThe Educated Traveller's Guide, pp. 95 - 110Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2019