The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome

by Elizabeth Depalma Digeser

Book Overview

The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes--seditious in its time--responded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor.

The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477875
• ISBN13: 9780801477874
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher