Constantine the Great

Constantine the Great was Roman emperor from the early fourth century and the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity. He defeated imperial rivals, founded Constantinople and reshaped the religious and political landscape of the late Roman world.

In Paul Doherty’s The Queen of the Night, Meanwhile, veteran soldiers, men who served Constantine along the Great Wall in northern Britain are being barbarously murdered; the indignities inflicted on their corpses reminiscent of the gruesome practices of the Picts whom they fought so many years ago. Simon Turney’s Sons of Rome places Constantine the Great within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and empire, conquest and resistance. Other novels featuring Constantine the Great include Bryan M. Litfin’s The Conqueror, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Priestess of Avalon, Paul Doherty’s Murder Imperial, Paul Doherty’s The Song of the Gladiator, and Paul Doherty’s Murder’s Immortal Mask.

In non-fiction, Constantine the Great is discussed in Nick Holmes’s The Roman Revolution and Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Fall of the West. Nick Holmes’s The Roman Revolution approaches the subject through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.