Constantine and the Bishops The Politics of Intolerance

"With laser-keen insight, bold thinking, and also a large measure of wry humor, Drake has presented a plausible and powerful interpretation of this formative moment in Western history. His notion that social processes should be analyzed not theologically but politically serves to make sense of much of the bewildering mass of evidence from this period. And it is delightful to see how wildly anachronistic television-pundit terms ('game,' 'power players,' 'hard-right,' and so on) provide, when they are shrewdly applied, valuable explanatory purchase on some of the steepest slopes of the past.Drake, H. A. is the author of 'Constantine and the Bishops The Politics of Intolerance' with ISBN 9780801862182 and ISBN 0801862183.