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By Andrew Roberts

ISBN-10: 0241019192

ISBN-13: 9780241019191

From Andrew Roberts, writer of the Sunday occasions bestseller The hurricane of battle, this is often the definitive sleek biography of Napoleon

It has turn into all too universal for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to procedure him as a determine to be reviled, bent on global domination, essentially a proto-Hitler. right here, after years of research extending even to visits paid to St Helena and fifty three of Napoleon's fifty six battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a real portrait of the brain, the existence, and the army and in particular political genius of a essentially optimistic ruler. this can be the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime task produced numerous essential civic techniques - and whose Napoleonic Code supplied the blueprint for civil legislation platforms nonetheless in use all over the world today.

It is among the maximum lives in global background, which the following has stumbled on its excellent biographer. The sheer amusement which this publication will supply an individual who loves historical past is enormous.

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of overseas renown whose books contain Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The typhoon of warfare, which reached No. 2 at the Sunday instances bestseller record. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and humanities. He looks frequently on British tv and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary overview, Mail on Sunday and day-by-day Telegraph.

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49 It may be that those who worry about the transformation of Sunday exaggerate its negative effects. The authors of an article “The Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom 21 Church versus the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition” argue that in states where there were blue laws that did not allow malls to open on Sunday, about 37 percent of people attended religious ser­vices at least weekly. 50 The 5 percent decline is not sig­nifi­cant. Though it is too soon to gauge the long-term effect of the commercialization of Sunday, it is safe to say that the traditional Sunday—whether regarded as a holy day or as both a holy day and a holiday—is a thing of the past.

If Constantine wanted to appease sun-worshiping Romans, why did he say he was a Christian? He told the historian Eusebius that he converted to Christianity because of a vision and a dream he had in 312, on the day before a major battle, which took place outside Rome, near the Milvian Bridge. Eusebius tells us: Around noon-time, when the day was already beginning to decline, he saw before him in the sky the sign of a cross of light.  . He said he became disturbed. What could the vision mean? He continued to ponder and to give great thought to the question, and night came on him suddenly.

Constantine believed he had been anointed by the Christian God to rule the Roman Empire. ”11 Historians have pondered the question of Constantine’s religious beliefs. ”12 Perhaps Constantine did not change religions so much as add a new god, Christ, to the ones he already venerated. ) He may have come to the conclusion that the sun god and Christ were one and the same. Whatever Constantine’s religious beliefs, he clearly favored the spread of Christianity. He built many churches, destroyed pagan temples, and decreed tax policies that were favorable to Christian clergy and Christian institutions.

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