The Age of Constantine the Great - Hardcover

"This is a book no thoughtful person can afford to miss. . . . Not only does it clarify the deeds and misdeeds of great men and the mystical impulses which spurred them, almost in the same breath, to incomparable acts of piety and dreadfulness, it is a touchstone to an art and literature which transmitted classical antiquity to Christian Europe." --Saturday Review "Here is something for one's bookcase that invites being taken down year after year and reread."--Christian Science Monitor "Written in the nineteenth century, it is now offered . . . in an admirable translation." --New York Times

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of both these fields.