The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

On Tuesday 28 October AD 312—1,713 years ago today—the Battle of the Milvian bridge was fought between the forces of Constantine and Maxentius, both contending to be recognized as emperor in the west. Whether you see Constantine’s victory in the battle as the foundation of Christendom, i.e., Christianity as a civilizational project, or as the triumph of barbarism and religion, as Gibbon saw it, either way it is an event that both demands and resists explanation.

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