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Christianity in the Roman Empire
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In Christianity in the Roman Empire , Harold Mattingly traces the course of two mighty empires, the Roman and the Christian - one declining, one growing - to determine how they influenced each other. Rome, fighting her way up from a city state, was "the power marked out by native capacity, geographical position, and conjunction of events to give unity to a distracted world." As the Republic grew and became an Empire, however, size and centralization of government brought a vast inflation of the civil and military service, and widespread misery and economic disorder. Under these circumstances, the Christian church struggled to establish itself.
In Christianity in the Roman Empire , Harold Mattingly traces the course of two mighty empires, the Roman and the Christian - one declining, one growing - to determine how they influenced each other. Rome, fighting her way up from a city state, was "the power marked out by native capacity, geographical position, and conjunction of events to give unity to a distracted world." As the Republic grew and became an Empire, however, size and centralization of government brought a vast inflation of the civil and military service, and widespread misery and economic disorder. Under these circumstances, the Christian church struggled to establish itself.
- GenresHistory
76 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1967
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Harold Mattingly
67 books3 followersHarold Mattingly was born 1884 in Sudbury, Suffolk and died in 1964 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
He was an historian of ancient Rome and numismatist; responsible for a total revision of the chronology and study of Roman coinage. Mattingly was educated at Lays School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. An excellent student, he was awarded a Craven University scholarship and studied in Germany. He joined the British Museum in 1910 in the Department of Printed Books before moving to the Department of Coins and Medals. Initially he published on Roman history in general, issuing two books (1909 and 1914). During the First World War 1914-16 he served in active duty before reassignment to the Postal Censorship Bureau until 1918. Returning to the Museum after the war, Mattingly turned his interests to numismatics. He and D. S. G. Robinson (q.v.), also of the Department of Coins and Medals, set about in a series of paper disproving the traditional dating of the Roman denarius. Beginning in 1923, Mattingly began issuing his catalog, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, a systematic study of Roman coinage. The somewhat more synoptic Roman Imperial Coinage appeared at the same time. These works were a thorough account of the subject which laid the groundwork for archaeologist and field scholars.
Obituary: "Dr. Harold Mattingly, Distinguished Numismatist." The Times, February 1, 1964.
He was an historian of ancient Rome and numismatist; responsible for a total revision of the chronology and study of Roman coinage. Mattingly was educated at Lays School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. An excellent student, he was awarded a Craven University scholarship and studied in Germany. He joined the British Museum in 1910 in the Department of Printed Books before moving to the Department of Coins and Medals. Initially he published on Roman history in general, issuing two books (1909 and 1914). During the First World War 1914-16 he served in active duty before reassignment to the Postal Censorship Bureau until 1918. Returning to the Museum after the war, Mattingly turned his interests to numismatics. He and D. S. G. Robinson (q.v.), also of the Department of Coins and Medals, set about in a series of paper disproving the traditional dating of the Roman denarius. Beginning in 1923, Mattingly began issuing his catalog, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, a systematic study of Roman coinage. The somewhat more synoptic Roman Imperial Coinage appeared at the same time. These works were a thorough account of the subject which laid the groundwork for archaeologist and field scholars.
Obituary: "Dr. Harold Mattingly, Distinguished Numismatist." The Times, February 1, 1964.
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