HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tetrarchy, Tyrant, Traditionalist Conservatism
13 Dec 2014
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Crispus, constantines son was executed in 326, because crispus had plotted against him allegedly, and apparently had raped his stepmother. In one version, constantine"s mother accused fausta of making the story up- the outcome was he had fausta boiled/suffocated shortly afterward: not very christian", peace except on frontiers, consolidation and development of diocletian"s reforms. Hard to tell which were constantine"s vs diocletians, even licinius: setting patterns that will be followed for the next wo centuries a model, constantine establishes, absolute imperial authority. Absolute in practice, remote in contact: revamped administration run by emperor, and his party" (the christians) By his family, regime, beyond that by his party- those that demonstrated loyalty to him, conversion was one such demonstration: economy in which prices and people are fixed. City was laid out on the model of rome. Constantine it comes to embrace the whole empire: christians themselves called the christian spread praeparatio evangelica- opposed by devil.
