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The 63 pages that link to Constantine the Great, each with the reason it gives.

• Byzantine EmpireRelated: His new capital became the enduring center of the eastern Roman state.

• Roman EmpireRelated: His new capital became the enduring center of the eastern empire.

• Early ChristianityRelated: His patronage altered Christianity’s relationship with imperial power.

• ChristianityRelated: Imperial patronage transformed Christianity’s public position in the Roman Empire.

• RomeRelated: His reign shifted imperial power away from Rome while transforming its religious landscape.

• ConstantinopleRelated: He inaugurated the city in 330 and gave it his name.

• Byzantine artRelated: His new capital helped establish the political setting for Byzantine artistic production.

• ArianismRelated: His intervention made the Arian dispute an imperial as well as ecclesiastical concern.

• Eusebius of CaesareaRelated: Eusebius portrayed Constantine as a divinely favored ruler and benefited from imperial patronage.

• Nicene CreedRelated: He summoned the council that issued the creed’s earliest form.

• Edict of MilanRelated: He negotiated the settlement with Licinius and helped make its protections imperial policy.

• Late AntiquityRelated: His reign altered imperial religion and established a new eastern capital.

• First Council of NicaeaRelated: He summoned the bishops and sought an empire-wide settlement.

• Ecumenical councilRelated: Imperial sponsorship made it possible to assemble bishops from across the Roman world.

• DiocletianRelated: Constantine rose amid the succession struggles that followed the Tetrarchy’s breakdown.

• Roman provincesRelated: His reign continued administrative changes that placed provinces within larger regional groupings.

• Christianization of the Roman EmpireRelated: His policies initiated the close relationship between emperors and Christian institutions.

• Donation of ConstantineRelated: The forgery attributes its supposed grant to Constantine.

• Western Roman EmpireRelated: The capital he founded became the seat of the eastern court after the empire’s division.

• Roman emperorRelated: His reign reshaped imperial religion and established Constantinople as a major capital.

• Diocletianic PersecutionRelated: His rise helped end persecution in the western empire and transformed imperial policy toward Christians.

• TetrarchyRelated: His rise after Constantius’s death helped unravel the Tetrarchy’s planned succession.

• Christianity in the Roman EmpireRelated: Imperial patronage under Constantine accelerated Christianity's public and institutional growth.

• Constantinian shiftBroader topic: His policies, patronage, and interventions in church disputes drove the shift’s early phase.

• Nicene ChristianityRelated: His imperial backing brought bishops together to seek church-wide agreement.

• Church of the Holy SepulchreRelated: He ordered the first church complex built over the sites associated with Jesus’s death and burial.

• CaesaropapismBroader topic: His imperial role in the Council of Nicaea illustrates early Christian rulers shaping church affairs.

• ChristianizationRelated: His patronage altered the political conditions under which Roman subjects encountered Christianity.

• Battle of the Milvian BridgeRelated: His campaign against Maxentius culminated in victory at the Milvian Bridge.

• Byzantine diplomacyRelated: His new capital became the center of the diplomatic court that shaped later practice.

• CathedralRelated: Imperial patronage under Constantine enabled the construction of prominent Christian churches.

• Christianization of EuropeRelated: His patronage reshaped Christianity's position in the Roman Empire before its spread across medieval Europe.

• Early Christian architectureRelated: Imperial patronage funded influential churches in Rome, Constantinople, and the Holy Land.

• Eastern Roman EmpireRelated: His new capital became the enduring center of eastern imperial power.

• LactantiusRelated: Lactantius is traditionally associated with Constantine’s court and the education of his son Crispus.

• Persecution of Christians in the Roman EmpireRelated: His policies transformed the state's relationship with Christian communities after decades of coercion.

• Division of the Roman EmpireRelated: His new capital shifted the empire’s political center toward the east.

• NicaeaRelated: His era framed the early Christian council held at Nicaea.

• Arius (Christian theologian)Related: His intervention gave the dispute imperial attention and brought bishops together at Nicaea.

• BasilicaRelated: Imperial patronage under Constantine helped establish large basilican churches.

• Byzantine SenateRelated: His creation of a new imperial capital gave the eastern Senate its setting.

• Constantius IINarrower topic: Constantius inherited power as Constantine’s son and continued his father’s dynastic legacy.

• Late Roman EmpireBroader topic: His policies transformed Christianity’s standing and redirected imperial power eastward.

• Seven-day weekRelated: His 321 CE Sunday rest law gave the weekly cycle a place in Roman civil life.

• Late antique artRelated: His patronage helped move Christian imagery and architecture into imperial public life.

• Claudius GothicusRelated: Constantine’s claimed descent from Claudius promoted a dynastic link that historians doubt.

• Hippodrome of ConstantinopleRelated: The arena became part of the monumental city he established.

• Church historyRelated: His patronage changed Christianity’s relationship with Roman political power.

• HelenaRelated: Helena was his mother, and his rule gave her unusual imperial standing.

• SozomenRelated: His reign begins just before the narrative span Sozomen chose.