This article traces Roman charity from its incipient meager beginnings during Rome's infancy to the mature legal formula it assumed after intersecting with the Roman emperors and Christianity. During this evolution, charity went from being a haphazard and often accidental private event, to a broad ...
The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity With control in the hands of Augustus by 27 B.C., the Augustan Age began. A variety of reforms transformed the Republic into the Empire. Rome entered a period of expansion, prosperity, cultural vigor, and relative political stability that would l...
According to Li, before the large-scale expansion of Christianity, the mainstream ideology or lifestyle of Roman countries advocated worldly enjoyment, and the overall values of society were secular. However, with the rise of Christianity and its absorption of Oriental mysticism culture, the secular ...
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Kings and Emperors (Part III) Quiz Louis’ second war against Venice (1357–58) was more successful than his first ventures. Under the Treaty of Zara (February 1358), most of the Venetians’ Dalmatian towns went to Hungary. In the east he protected his expanded domains by defeating the Tu...
HOW ROMAN EMPERORS INVENTED CHRISTIANITY Home Background Blog About More Small Heading Religious fanatics from the Middle East have begun an all-out assault on western civilization, taking their terrorism to the very capitals of foreign “decadence” in a destructive rampage characterized by religious ...
Roman Catholicism is a Christian religion that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity. It is led by the pope, as
With the Flavians begins a new epoch in Roman history of pronounced importance for Christianity. The exclusive Roman ideas are on the wane. Vespasian was of plebeian and Sabine rank and thus non-Roman, the first of many non-Roman emperors. His ideas were provincial rather than Roman, and ...
If Constantine, who had a tendency to Christianity, lost this war, the course of history would have changed. Because Maxentius, like many Roman emperors in the past, was pagan. The persecution of Christians for hundreds of years would probably continue. This war changed the course of history...
"This building, in a very radical way on its own, shows us the staying power of the pagan traditions that had been on the ground for centuries prior to the rise of Christianity, and it shows us how the Roman emperors continued to negotiate their own values, their own hopes and dream...