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The new ideology expressed in the speech made Galerius and Maximian irrelevant to Constantine's right to rule. [123] Indeed, the orator emphasizes ancestry to the exclusion of all other factors: "No chance agreement of men, nor some unexpected consequence of favour, made you emperor," the orator declares to Constantine. [124]
Senior emperor in 1071–78, he named his son Constantine co-emperor alongside his brothers. He abdicated before the revolt of Nikephoros Botaneiates, retired to a monastery and died c. 1090 . His reign saw the devaluation of the Byzantine currency by 25%, hence his nickname "minus-a-quarter".
Constantine's vision and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in a 9th-century Byzantine manuscript. During the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
[60]: 332 Constantine became the first Emperor in the Christian era to persecute specific groups of Christians. [62] Brown says Roman authorities had shown no hesitation in "taking out" the Christian church they saw as a threat to empire, and Constantine and his successors did the same, for the same reasons. [2]: 74
The work progresses into Constantine's time under the Emperor Diocletian. Constantine is contrasted with the tyrannical Diocletian, whose persecution of Christians and oppressive rule accentuates the presentation of Constantine as a strong Christian
Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity, although he likely continued in his pre-Christian beliefs. He and co-Emperor Licinius bestowed imperial favor on Christianity through the Edict of Milan promulgated in 313. After the Edict of Milan, the church adopted the same governmental structure as the Empire: geographical ...
Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Δραγάσης Παλαιολόγος, Kōnstantînos Dragásēs Palaiológos; 8 February 1404 – 29 May 1453) was the last Byzantine emperor, reigning from 1449 until his death in battle at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Last emperor to briefly rule over the two halves of the Empire after the Battle of the Frigidus. Died of natural causes [148] Arcadius: 17 January 395 – 1 May 408 (13 years, 3 months and 14 days; East) Son of Theodosius I; co-emperor since 16 January 383. Emperor in the east 377 – 1 May 408 (aged 31)