Diocletian

on-and-off depending on various historical events and periods of peace, to AD 313, when Constantine ended it with the Edict of Milan. One of the supporters of this persecution was Emperor Diocletian. Beginning in AD 303, Diocletian’s persecution of Christians was the worst and final persecution in the Roman Empire. Diocletian dictated that the Church at Nicomedia be demolished and the scriptures burned. Christian men, women, and children were gathered together and told to offer a collective…

Valerius Constantinus. He was born on February 27, 272 A.D. in Naissus, Moesia. His father was a caesar, also known as sub-emperor, and would later become the Western Roman Emperor. During this time Constantine would be raised by Diocletian. During 305 A.D. Diocletian and Maximian were emperors of that the time and when they resigned, Constantius and Galerius became the new emperors. After the death of his father, Constantine would fight to take over control of the empire. While in Britain,…

After Diocletian’s reign ended in 315 AD, there was a fight for imperial power over the Roman Empire. Diocletian had created a tetrarchy, but now the men fighting for the imperial office wanted to have sole power of the empire instead of having other men rule with him. Constantine the Great and Maxentius would turn out to be the main attackers for the position. Maxentius had power over Italy from defeating Galerius, and Constantine had control over the upper Roman Empire of Gaul and Britain.…

Christian Empire, the reforms of Diocletian were, Social reforms, Military, Executive, Political, Religious, and Toll. Diocletian’s reforms were expensive and required a predictable income. His reforms results were less than easy to anticipate. He made the Social Reforms in order to give the emperors respect and overcome again. The military reforms to liberate from field armies. He separated the civil leaders from the military leaders. What Diocletian tried to accomplish was that he supported…

Constantine once said “How pleasing to the wise and intelligent portion of mankind is the concord which exists among you” (“Constantine the Great”). Constantine ruled from A.D. 306 to 337, and was most commonly known for being the first Christian Emperor. Constantine fought to take power after his father’s death and saw a vision that would convert him to a Christian forever. The life of Constantine revolved around his family, his conversion to christianity and the type of leader he was…

Constantine’s conversion to Christianity was a pivotal turning point in the highly pagan regime of the Roman Empire (Afoldi, 1948). There has been much speculation by historians and scholars surrounding whether the conversion to Christianity was a carefully articulated political maneuver by Constantine, for military supremacy of the Roman Empire. Historically, scholars suggest that the context in which Constantine was said to have converted to Christianity was a militaristic based context, with…

Although Constantine and Clovis lived during different times, both men which who were very powerful experienced an event that affected not only their lives, but also the lives of thousands of people around them. Each man cried out for the help of the Christian God in desperation on the battlefield in which both men had received Gods’ favor. Constantine and Clovis each accepted Christ right after their battle turned out in a victory. Even though Constantine and Clovis are pretty much similar,…

Constantine (or the more well known name Constantine the Great) ruled the Roman Empire and was able to revolutionize the practice of religion and political norm of the Roman Empire. Without him there would be a big impact on the religion of Christianity and there wouldn’t be the religion you see today (or it would not have been popular). Constantine was the spark of Christianity that was passed on to many rulers post his death. Previously, Judaism was in the hands of the practiced religion in…

left the Empire to his sons, who were very young. Then, the wife of Constantine X got married Romanus Diogenes, who was an important person in Cappadocia, and he declared himself as an emperor in 1068. During the same year, Romanus Diogenes sent an expedition against the Seljuk’s because the Seljuk’s had taken the city of Ani. During Romanus Diogenes’ reconnaissance, his army could not find the Turks, and then he decided to take a Byzantine fortress in Manzikert to exchange of Hierapolis with…

Constantine I is known as the first Roman Emperor to convert the Roman Empire to Christianity. He is also known to have stopped the long lived persecution of Christians and converted himself to Christianity. He was the first Roman Emperor to initiate Christianity as the key religion in Rome and provide a distinctively Christian culture that allowed the growth and prosperity of Rome to flourish. Constantine I is also known as Constantine the Great. He lived in the third century following his…