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Cover of The Dominate: How Constantine and His Heirs Turned Rome into a Christian Monarchy, Book Three of The Shape of Roman Power

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The Dominate: How Constantine and His Heirs Turned Rome into a Christian Monarchy

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Book Three of The Shape of Roman Power, completing the trilogy. Constantine's reunification of the empire, the founding of Constantinople, the Council of Nicaea and the Arian controversy, the civil wars after his death, Julian the Apostate's twenty-month reign, and Theodosius I's Edict of Thessalonica.

What you get

  • Ten chapters tracing Constantinople's founding through to the Edict of Thessalonica
  • A4 and US Letter PDFs, plus a mobile edition and an EPUB
  • A full chronology and a chapter on whether "the Dominate" is a coherent system at all

For: Readers completing the trilogy that began with The Principate and The Tetrarchy.

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