Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor who ruled from 306 to 337 CE. Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, promoting tolerance for that religion; for that reason, he has been seen as a great ruler throughout Christian history. Constantine also accomplished major...
It was most probably due to influences from China where the “one world, one ruler” ideology had a long tradition. The creation of nomad empires in the steppes and the attempts to extend their rule over the more settled parts of central Asia and finally over the whole known world may ...
An additional factor in Louis's thinking was the prevailing contemporary European principle to assure socio-political stability, cuius regio, eius religio ("whose realm, his religion"), the idea that the religion of the ruler should be the religion of the realm (as originally confirmed in ...
“founder” of themedievalpapacy, which exercised bothsecularand spiritual power. His epithet “the Great” reflects his status as a writer as well as a ruler. As the fourth and final of the traditional Latin Fathers of the Church, Gregory was the first exponent of a truly medieval, ...
Suleiman was called 'the magnificent' due to his leadership, kindness, tolerance, and revered reputation as a strong and stable ruler within the Ottoman Empire and around the world. What is Suleiman the Magnificent known for? Suleiman the Magnificent is known for his expansion and rule during th...
considered to be Rome's first individual ruler since the days of the last king of Rome,Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), in all but name, it was not until he was succeeded by his nephew Octavian, whom he adopted as his son, that the time of the Republic was truly over....
[214] Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age. James was depicted as a Catholic sympathiser, presiding over a corrupt court.[215] The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of ...
Although Cleopatra was dead, and her dynasty was at an end, Egyptian priests refused to let go of the idea that Egypt had a pharaoh as ruler, even though the country was being incorporated into theRoman Empireas a province. "(The priests) had to have an acting pharaoh, and the only ac...
You can almost lay a ruler along the diagonal that the Fosse Way describes and, although its course now sometimes dwindles, you can drive substantial sections, or along roads that shadow it, taking in places redolent with English history from Roman times to the present: Exeter, Bath, Cirences...
I THE NATIVE RULER : Five Men Character Studies From the Roman EmpireCharlesworth, Martin Percival