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The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine Timothy D. Barnes
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Oct 26, 2011 - Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, or Constantine, was born on February 27th 272 AD to Constantius Chlorus (an important military figure in Diocletian's army) and mother Helena (a Greek). Dec 18, 2012 - However, learning the lessons from Diocletian and Constantine the Great he realised that to rule and secure the empire on his own was impossible, thus throughout his reign he subsequently promoted his only surviving male relatives, Gallus This was a completely new and unprecedented move by a Roman Emperor, especially when one considers that in the early empire Octavian changed his name to Augustus in order to actively distance himself from civil conflict. And yet, in this darkest hour, the impossible happened; the two Augustii retired in 311; and, two years later, the new rulers Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan, which legalized Christianity throughout the Empire. As a child he The empire is now united. Jan 29, 2011 - We began with the New Testament, and then we had two podcasts about the structure of the Christian Church in the first, second, and third centuries, about how the Church got organized and how it was structured and the place of the bishop, because already . Constantine also makes his heir, Crispus (son of his first wife), junior emperor of the west, much to the irritation of his new wife, Fausta (because she wants her own sons to be emperors). What was Emperor Diocletian set a cap on prices and a wage-freeze. And the Christians were not subversive, and the empire should be put under the Christian God because Constantine believed that he was called by God for this purpose; he believed that he was fated by God. Invading Not a new threat, these Germanic tribes had always been a hovering menace but met little success. Aug 30, 2013 - As of 303, Emperor Diocletian, spurred on by his co-emperor Galerius, had unleashed a virulent round of persecutions, and it appeared that the imperial machine would not stop until it had ground Christianity into the dust. A Roman 330 AD - Constantine moved the capital of the eastern empire to Byzantium, a Greek city, and renamed it Constantinople. One meter thick), and new entrances without towers, features not previously present in these complexes, were constructed. Mar 10, 2014 - An empire that once defined the world, Rome fell due to reasons as mundane as inflation, and as intriguing as treacherous legions and mad emperors. Jun 12, 2012 - The Diocletian-Constantine period castella received reinforced fortification walls (cc. Constantine makes the new capital Constantinople.