The Battle at Milvian Bridge

It is not my aim in this essay to bore the reader with needless historical details nor to overwhelm with an abundance of names and dates. Instead, it is my goal to show Constantine the Great as an individual personality in a particular, specific culture and to discuss the significance of his “conversion” as it relates to early Christianity. First, however, we must understand the story of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge. Briefly then, we enter the scene as Constantine and Maxentius, two...