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Charles Freeman is a freelance academic historian with wide interests in the history of European culture and thought. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Egypt, Greece and Rome, Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean. He has followed this up with The Greek Achievement (Penguin 1999), The Legacy of Ancient Egypt (Facts on File, 1997) and The Closing of the Western Mind, a study of the relationship between Greek philosophy and Christianity in the fourth century and beyond. His The Horses of St. Mark’s (Little Brown, 2004) is a study of these famous works of art in their historical contexts over the centuries. In 2003, Charles Freeman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 676 ratings · 96 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason 4.01 avg rating — 358 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman, Oswyn Murray 4.04 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World by Charles Freeman, Buxhall Vale (Preface by) 3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A New History of Early Christianity 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Horses of St. Marks 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Legacy of Ancient Egypt 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sites of Antiquity from Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome: 50 Sites That Explain the Classical World 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Ancient Greeks 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a well-established structure of authority as a prop to the imperial regime rather than exclude it as a hindrance.”
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