The Age of Constantine the Great by Jacob Burckhardt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In the present work it has been the author's design to describe the remarkable half century from the accession of Diocletian to the death of Constantine in its quality as a period of transition. What was intended was not a history of the life and reign of Constantine, nor yet an encyclopedia of all worth-while information pertaining to this period. Rather were the significant and essential characteristics of the contemporary world to be outlined and shaped into a perspicuous sketch of the whole. | The Age of Constantine the Great by Jacob Burckhardt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters