| Nicea was about the Arian heresy. One side saw the father, son, and spirit as the same source, existing forever, and the other saw them as seperate, the son having been created, being both man and divine, at one point lesser than the father. That was the big argument.
This isn't to say Byzantine's politics didn't effect christianity for the rest of history, or that Constantine didn't see advantage in a highly structured male dominated church, but at Nicea he was pretty hands off. If Brown had really wanted to show some political corruption, Pelchuria playing the virgin and upraising Mary to near diety would have been a better point.
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