The conversion of Palestine, a province of the Roman Empire, into a Christian Holy Land begins with Emperor Constantine. Constantine’s embrace of Christianity, at a time when only a relatively small ...number of his subjects were adherents of that recently persecuted faith, was his personal statement; but given his position as emperor and the monotheistic, exclusionary nature of the Christian faith, the consequences, political and theological, had inevitably to follow. The most important of them was undoubtedly the emperor’s summoning the bishops of the entire Church to the city of Nicea in a.d. 325 to sit in conclave and attempt,
Even among hagiographers, the "Lidai fabao ji" has been labeled a fabric of self-promoting fictions. This opinion was first expressed shortly after the work was written in the late 18th century.
Alexandre Dumas' novel, "Le Maitre d'armes," is about a romance between a young French woman and a Count "Waninkoff" who is almost accidentally caught up in the Decembrist conspiracy. Beaujour ...examines the novel and how the content and tone of Pauline Annenkova's memoirs are determined by the portrayal of the French woman in "Le Maitre d'armes."
