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The religious politics of Constantine and of his successors, which would change in many aspects the political and social equilibrium of the Empire, was also a fundamental turning point in the conception of space and in its sacralization, contributing to the transformation and the definition of ancient topography through a new network of holy places. Such a procedure has had important ideological, theological, and political implications, often emphasized in contemporary sources and apparent in different ways in later texts as well. In these texts, the memory of Constantine becomes a paradigm for referring to the construction of the image of a Christian empire. Basilicas, palaces, sanctuaries, and, on the other hand, forums, temples, curias, become the "visible" language through which it is possible to read the tangible signs of transformation, conversion, and continuous presence, onto which symbolic references are projected. Through the contributions of studies from around the world and from various academic disciplines, the subject of sacred space in the age of Constantine is investigated here from many points of view, including that of literary history, archaeology, epigraphy, art history, and relating to different geographical and chronological areas: from the classical places of Rome and from the Christian West to the construction of the Holy Land and the Byzantine Empire, from hagiographical discourses to foundation legends, from Coptic traditions to those of the Rus' in the 11th-13th centuries, and also including reception in contemporary times.

Church and state --- Sacred space --- Church history --- Eglise et Etat --- Lieux sacrés --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Constantine --- Rome --- History --- Lieux sacrés --- Church and state - Rome --- Sacred space - Rome --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Constantin empereur --- Constantine - I, - Emperor of Rome, - -337 --- Rome - History - Constantine I, the Great, 306-337