David Potter. Oxford Univ, $34.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-19-975586-8
Seventeen centuries ago, Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 282–337 C.E.) converted to Christianity, changing that religion’s course from a minority sect into the West’s dominant religion. Drawing on many primary sources, Potter efficiently narrates...
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David Potter. Crown, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-39056-9
In the first book in a planned series, three boarding-school students whose parents are too busy to pick them up for the holidays decide to spend an educational Christmas Day at a reenactment of Washington’s fateful crossing of the Delaware. But...
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David Potter. Oxford Univ, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-974076-5
Potter (Constantine the Emperor), professor of Greek and Roman history at the University of Michigan, paints a sympathetic portrait of Theodora, mistress and then wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Theodora was the most powerful woman of the
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