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  • Brading Roman Villa: Evidence of a Late Roman Massacre?

  • Michael Fulford, Derek Hamilton
  • Journal:
    Britannia , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 July 2026, pp. 1-8
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  • Radiocarbon dating of disarticulated human remains from Brading Roman villa (Isle of Wight, UK) assigns them to a single event or multiple events within a short duration in the Late Roman period, c. 220/50–360/400. The evidence of the coins suggests the possibility of a brief abandonment of the villa following a potentially murderous event in the 340s or 350s, perhaps to be linked to reprisals taken by Constantius against supporters of Magnentius. This event may in turn coincide with a significant reorganisation of space in the west range of the villa.

  • VII - After Constantine

  • Edited and translated by Raymond Van Dam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    Inscriptions from the Age of Constantine
    Published online:
    20 April 2026
    Print publication:
    14 May 2026, pp 835-874

  • Summary

    After Constantine was buried in Constantinople in 337, the senate at Rome voted to deify him. In inscriptions his sons, the new senior emperors Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, advertised their descent from deified Constantine and deified Constantius I. Legends claimed that Constantine had once seen a cross in the sky, accompanied by a caption, “conquer in this.” This exhortation became common in inscriptions.

  • 1 - The successors of Constantine

  • from PART I - CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW
  • Edited by Averil Cameron, University of Oxford, Peter Garnsey, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    11 December 1997, pp 1-43

  • Summary

    In dealing with the established institutions of Rome, where Constantine had already charted the pragmatic course which would be followed by his Christian successors through the century, the emperor faced constraints against the thoroughgoing eradication of paganism which the will of God ideally required - and of which Constans and his brother were eloquently reminded about this time in Firmicus Maternus' pamphlet On the Error of Profane Religions. A more definitive legacy of Constantine's was the transformation of ecclesiastical politics into affairs of state. Constans' destroyer, Fl. Magnus Magnentius, was representative of a new breed of capaces imperii springing up in the western provinces in the fourth century. In over twenty years of defending Roman territory in the east, Amida was the first place to fall to the Persians. At Constantinople he ordered an investigation into the disaster, which resulted in Ursicinus' being retired from his command.