TY - BOOK AU - Veyne,Paul TI - When our world became christian, 312-394 SN - 9780745644998 AV - BR205 .V4913 2010 U1 - 270.2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity KW - Church history KW - 4th century N1 - "First published in French as Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-241) and index; Constantine : the saviour of humanity -- Christianity : a masterpiece -- The church : another masterpiece -- The dream of the Milvian Bridge : Constantine's faith and his conversion -- The motives, both major and minor, for Constantine's conversion -- Constantine, the church's "president" -- An ambivalent century, with an empire at once pagan and Christian -- Christianity wavers, then triumphs -- A partial and mixed state religion : the fate of the Jews -- Was there an ideology? -- Does Europe have Christian roots? -- Appendix: Polytheisms and monolatry in ancient Judaism ER -