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Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge
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ISBN: 9781107096431 110709643X 9780511973048 9781107644496 1107644496 1139064193 1107222427 113907671X 9786613112910 1139083538 1139078992 1139070991 0511973047 1283112914 1139081268 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Constantine was the first Christian emperor in the Roman empire. Before his victory in 312 at the battle of the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, he claimed to have seen a vision of a cross in the sky. The book analyzes the legends about the battle and the vision, from the later Roman empire to the later medieval period. By rehabilitating the significance of Maxentius, the losing emperor, this book also emphasizes the competing ideas at stake about Roman emperorship, the contours of the empire,and the place of Rome"--

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