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"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's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
"The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length book to interpret the Divine Institutes as a historical source. Exploring Lactantius's use of theology, philosophy, and rhetorical techniques, Digeser perceives the Divine Institutes as a sophisticated proposal for a monotheistic state that intimately connected the religious policies of Diocletian and Constantine, both of whom used religion to fortify and unite the Roman Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome
November 18, 1999, Cornell University Press
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0801435943 9780801435942
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"The accounts of Diocletian's rise to power give no indication that he would in any way distinguish himself from the twenty ruthless military emperors of the previous fifty years."
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