<p>Back cover text:<br>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.</p>

Christianity in the Roman Empire

Harold Mattingly

Religion & Spirituality

W.W.Norton and Company

Catalogue of Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum: Antoninus Pius to Commodus v. 4

British Museum Press

Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

British Museum P.

Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. 6

Spink & Son, Ltd.

Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. 4

Edward A. Sydenham

Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (v. 1)

Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (v. 2)

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