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An eight page paper which looks at the life and works of the Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor and the founder of Constantinople. The paper explores the early influences on his life, his military career, his protection of Christians against the Pagan majority and the importance of the Edict of Milan and the First Ecumenical Council in terms of the growth of Christianity and the freedom of Christian worship.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLConstant.rtf.
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The individual who was later to become the emperor
Constantine was born in the region which is now Serbia in the third century CE. His father was a Roman officer who later became the Emperor Constantius, and his mother
was Helena who was not of noble birth but seems to have been a talented and able individual, and was later canonised as St Helena. Helena was a Christian, although
Constantius was Pagan, and it is from his mother that Constantine developed his early sympathies towards Christianity. It appears, also, that Constantius himself was not antagonistic to Christians and there
would have been a number of members of his household of that faith.
At the time that his father was made emperor of the West, Constantine was fighting in the army of Galerius, the emperor
of the East. Constantius requested that his son be allowed to join him, since they had been separated for some time, and Constantine spent a brief period with his father
before Constantius died and the army promptly proclaimed Constantine as Caesar; this was something which worried Galerius, but he granted the title with some reluctance. This was at a point
when the empire was somewhat fragmented, with no one ruler having overall control.
During the succeeding years, Galerius and Severus were at war with Maxentius, who declared himself to be sole emperor;
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