CONSTANTINE'S IMPERIAL CHRISTIANITY One of the first things Constantine does, as emperor, is start persecuting other Christians. The Gnostic Christians are targeted...and other dualist Christians.

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the “last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium,” according to the late English Byzantinist, Donald MacGillivray Nicol, in his authoritative book ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the “last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium,” according to the late English Byzantinist, Donald MacGillivray Nicol in his authoritative book ...

Around six years later, back in Italy, Constantine converted from paganism to Christianity. His "epiphany" was said to have happened on the eve of battle with a competing Emperor, Maxentius.

Initially it was the religion of the urban areas: the civitas. The population at large, though, continued for some time their polytheistic worship based on Roman and Celtic beliefs.

the Roman Emperor Constantine. Following his battlefield conversion, Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of Rome, and he decided that Christ's birth should become a major ...

Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th Century as the one that sealed Christianity’s fate. This was the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Once Christianity was ...

That's more fitting than it sounds, Lowe told The Times, because Constantine was running the forces patrolling Hadrian's Wall and was proclaimed emperor in York. Harriet Marsden is a writer for ...

ANCIENT ROADS FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE charts Christianity's evolution from a small movement to the largest religion in the world, with more than two billion followers. Host Jonathan Phillips ...

Michael Portillo investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine - the man who transformed Christianity from a clandestine handful of followers of Jesus Christ into one of the world's ...