The Age of Constantine

After Constantine Emperor, the Catholic Church faced an Italian political regime breakdown, Muslim invasion, and an attempt to rule a part of Italy by the German emperor. This will lead to one of the major problems between the church and the government. Because the pope 's state is at risk of being overtaken by the German emperor, the Papacy has to make a strong political participation to rule their country. This will bring more political power to the church.

The contemporary interpretation of Konstantin's rule began with Jacob Burckhardt's "The Constantine the Great" (1853, 1880). Burkhardt's Constantine is a secularist, a politician who operates political parties to protect power. In the 1930's, Henri Gregoire followed the Burkhardt Constantine's rating. This suggests that Constantine was only interested in Christianity after seeing his political usage. Grégoire is skeptical about the authenticity of Eusebius' Vita and assumes that pseudo Eusebius is responsible for the visual and translation stories of the work. Otto Seic's "Ancient ruins of Vert" (1920-23) and Andre · Piganiol's "Emperor Constantin" (1932) are breaking this historical tradition. Seeck regards Constantine as a hero of sincere warfare, and his ambiguity is his own innocent product. Constantine of Piganiol was a philosophical monotheist, and in his time he was a child of religious integration.

Anna Comnena was engaged in Constantin Ducasse at a very young age, but she was the cousin of her mother, the son of Michael VII, the predecessor Nicephorus III, and Maria Alania. Then she was placed in the care of Maria Alanya, her mate, her fiance. And that is a common practice. Young Konstantin is named Common Emperor and is expected to become the successor of Alexius I who had no son at the time. When Anna's brother John was born, Konstantin no longer asked for the throne. Konstantin died before the end of the marriage

When the Romans prohibited Christianity, the cross was symbolically juxtaposed with the cross of the lamb of Christ. Even after the age of Constantin where Christians were allowed to practice their religion without interference, the cross itself did not yet have the image of Christ. Other paintings convey the crucible stories; they are crowded with people, like the works of Italian Renaissance artists. The characters of the Gospel are the permanent features of crucifixion: the Virgin Mary and the evangelist St. John, the centurion chief and the sponge holder, the two thieves, the soldiers