Gothic novels allowed writers and readers to explore these ideas through the medium of storytelling. Ghosts, death and decay, madness, curses, and so-called ‘things that go bump in the night’ provided ways to explore fear of the unknown and what control we have as humans over the unknown.

Gothic fiction is still popular in contemporary times simply because its elements appeal intellectually, emotionally, and even spiritually to the readers.

Starting in the 360s ce , numerous late ancient sources began to report that Arius’ death was the result of explosive gastrointestinal problems he suffered in the city of Constantinople while he was attempting to negotiate admittance to the church there.

Eusebius of Nicomedia (died 341) was an Arian priest who baptized Constantine the Great on his deathbed in 337. He lived finally in Constantinople from 338 up to his death.

The Council of Nicaea was the first council in the history of the Christian church that was intended to address the entire body of believers. It was convened by the emperor Constantine to resolve the controversy of Arianism, a doctrine that held that Christ was not divine but was a created being.

5th century

Eusebius of Caesarea

İznik

313 AD

Meeting at Nicaea in present-day Turkey, the council established the equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity and asserted that only the Son became incarnate as Jesus Christ. The Arian leaders were subsequently banished from their churches for heresy.

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