Author : Lorenzo Valla
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674030893
Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.
Author : Lorenzo Valla
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Constitutum Constantini
ISBN :
Author : Johannes Fried
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 3110902230
The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactly is the Donation of Constantine? To find the answer, it is necessary to approach the question on two different semantic levels: First, as the Constitutum Constantini, a fictitious privilege, in which, among other things, rights and presents were bestowed on the catholic church by a grateful Emperor Konstantin. Secondly, as a reflection of the Middle Age mindset, becoming part of the culture landscape midway through 11th century A.D. The author not only reinterprets the origin of this forgery (i.e. puts it down to the Franks’ opposition of Emperor Louis the Pious), but retells, as well, the history of its misinterpretation since the High Middle Ages. In an appendix, all relevant texts are printed in the original language, an English translation is provided.
Author : Lorenzo Valla
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780969751236
Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781099617195
The Donation of Constantine (Latin: Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope.
Author : Lorenzo Valla
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Constitutum Constantini
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Van Dam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139499726
Constantine's victory in 312 at the battle of the Milvian Bridge established his rule as the first Christian emperor. This book examines the creation and dissemination of the legends about that battle and its significance. Christian histories, panegyrics and an honorific arch at Rome soon commemorated his victory, and the emperor himself contributed to the myth by describing his vision of a cross in the sky before the battle. Through meticulous research into the late Roman narratives and the medieval and Byzantine legends, this book moves beyond a strictly religious perspective by emphasizing the conflicts about the periphery of the Roman empire, the nature of emperorship and the role of Rome as a capital city. Throughout late antiquity and the medieval period, memories of Constantine's victory served as a powerful paradigm for understanding rulership in a Christian society.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107041643
Provides the first full study of the predecessor church of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction.
Author : Lorenzo Valla
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : A. Edward Siecienski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1351976117
Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy brings together some of the English-speaking world’s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. For many, he remains a "sign of contradiction" (Luke 2:34) whose life and legacy generate intense debate. He was the first Christian emperor, protector of the Church, and eventually remembered as "equal to the apostles" for bringing about the Christianization of the Empire. Yet there is another side to Constantine’s legacy, one that was often neglected by his Christian hagiographers. Some modern scholars have questioned the orthodoxy of the so-called model Christian emperor, while others have doubted the sincerity of his Christian commitment, viewing his embrace of the faith as merely a means to a political end. Drawing together papers presented at the 2013 symposium at Stockton University commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, this volume examines the very questions that have for so long occupied historians, classicists, and theologians. The papers in this volume prove once again that Constantine is not so much a figure from the remote past, but an individual whose legacy continues to shape our present.
