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In Hoc Signo Vinces: The Original Context of the Vision of Constantine

2005; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 41; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0424208400000073

2059-0644

Richard Price,

Classical Antiquity Studies

Of all the signs and wonders, real or imaginary, in the history of Christianity one of the most celebrated is the ‘Vision of Constantine’ – a vision or dream in which Constantine, meditating an attack on his rival Maxentius in AD 312, was instructed to entrust his fortunes to the Christian God and the sign of the cross, the experience which, supposedly, converted the emperor to the Christian faith.