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    Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith

    By Ross Cowan and Seán Ó’Brógáin

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    In AD 312, the Roman world was divided between four emperors. The most ambitious was Constantine, who sought to eliminate his rivals and reunite the Empire. His first target was Maxentius, who held Rome, the symbolic heart of the Empire. Inspired by a dream sent by the Christian God, at the Milvian Bridge region just north of Rome, he routed Maxentius' army and pursued the fugitives into the river Tiber. The victory secured Constantine's hold on the western half of the Roman Empire and confirmed his Christian faith, but many details of this famous battle remain obscured. This new volume identifies the location of the battlefield and explains the tactics Constantine used to secure a victory that triggered the fundamental shift from paganism to Christianity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 20, 2016
    ISBN9781472813831
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    Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith
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    Ross Cowan

    Dr Ross H. Cowan studied Classics at the University of Glasgow, where he also wrote his doctoral thesis about elite units of the Roman Imperial Army, the Praetorian Guard and Second Parthian Legion. He is the author of works on the Imperial legions and has written many articles on all aspects of the Roman Army, as well as making occasional forays into Scottish military history. He lives and works near Glasgow.

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