When our world became Christian, 312-394
By: Paul Veyne ; translated by Janet Lloyd
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780745644981; 9780745644998
Work titles: Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien, (312-394)
Notes: "First published in French as Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-241) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Constantine : the saviour of humanity; title: Christianity : a masterpiece; title: The church : another masterpiece; title: The dream of the Milvian Bridge : Constantine's faith and his conversion; title: The motives, both major and minor, for Constantine's conversion; title: Constantine, the church's "president"; title: An ambivalent century, with an empire at once pagan and Christian; title: Christianity wavers, then triumphs; title: A partial and mixed state religion : the fate of the Jews; title: Was there an ideology?; title: Does Europe have Christian roots?; title: Appendix: Polytheisms and monolatry in ancient Judaism.