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Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma.

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Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman "Res Publica".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman "Res Publica"./
Author:	Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma.
Description:	397 p.
Notes:	Chair: H. A. Drake.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09A.
Subject:	History, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9704191
ISBN:	0591106396

Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman "Res Publica".
Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma.

Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman "Res Publica". - 397 p.

Chair: H. A. Drake.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996.

Did Lactantius, the fourth-century theologian (250?-320?), influence Constantine the Great (306-337), the first Roman emperor to adopt and cultivate Christianity? From the vengeance of God to the magisterium of Christ, the themes stressed in their writings harmonize closely. Knowing that Lactantius tutored the emperor's son and dedicated his greatest work, the Divine Institutes, to Constantine, historians have long wondered who influenced whom. Yet the relationship between their ideas has remained obscure, despite renewed attention to Lactantius in the 1970's and continued, intense interest in Constantine's religious politics. In part, this problem has fallen through the cracks separating modern academic disciplines: Classicists and theologians analyze the elegant Divine Institutes, but historians typically neglect it. In addition, a firm chronology of Lactantius' career has remained elusive: Few ancient references to him survive, and the Divine Institutes' complex manuscript tradition has frustrated efforts to date its two editions. Since no one has successfully situated the Divine Institutes in its historical context, no one has determined whether or why one man might have adopted the views of the other.

ISBN: 0591106396Subjects--Topical Terms:

516261
History, Ancient.

Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman "Res Publica".
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520 $a This dissertation has taken up that three-fold project: First it fixes the chronology. It presents evidence that Lactantius wrote the Divine Institutes before joining the court and then delivered the text to Constantine in 310, fourteen years before the previously accepted date, and before the emperor had firmly established either his faith or religious policy. Next it situates the book in its historical context. It shows how the Great Persecution (303-313), an effort to reinvigorate Roman polytheism, inspired Lactantius to develop novel interpretations of Christian doctrine--including a theory of religious toleration. His aim was to rally pagan monotheists and Christians around a new Roman constitution, a government founded on God's law and subject to an emperor who renounced the imperial cult. Finally, the dissertation resolves the question of influence. It not only illustrates how Constantine adapted Lactantius' arguments for religious toleration, but it also suggests how Lactantius' broadly inclusive Christianity and ideas for political reform might have contributed to the process by which Rome became a Christian Empire.
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