Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study
- T. Barnes
- History
- 10 October 1985
Tertullian lived and wrote in Roman Carthage during the reigns of Septimus Severus (193-211) and his son Caracalla (211-217). His voluminous tracts and pamphlets reveal the atmosphere of early…
Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality
- T. Barnes
- History
- 15 October 1998
Constantine and Eusebius
- T. Barnes
- History
- 1981
PART ONE: Constantine 1. Diocletian and Maximiam 2. Galerius and the Christians 3. The Rise of Constantine 4. The Christian Emperor of the West 5. Constantine and Licinius PART TWO: Eusebius 6.…
Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire
- T. Barnes
- History
- 1 June 1993
Edward Gibbon described Athanasius as a man "whose character and abilities would have qualified him, far more than the degenerate sons of Constantine, for the government of a great monarchy". During…
Legislation against the Christians
- T. Barnes
- HistoryJournal of Roman Studies
- 1 November 1968
The modern bibliography on the subject of the juridical basis of the persecutions of the Christians in the Roman Empire before 250 is vast, contentious—and in large part worthless. For no-one has yet…
The sources of the Historia Augusta
- Robert Owen Edbrooke, T. Barnes
- History
- 1 April 1979
Some Persons in the Historia Augusta
- T. Barnes
- History
- 22 January 1972
A UTHORS OF WORKS OF REFERENCE often receive less gratitude than they deserve. When isolated mistakes or omissions are observed, it becomes all too easy to forget the vast amount of information…
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