The Great Persecution : a historical re-examination /

The Great Persecution : a historical re-examination /

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Author / Creator:Shin, Min Seok, author.
Imprint:Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
©2018
Description:xii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studia Antiqua Australiensia ; volume 8
Studia antiqua australiensia ; v. 8.
Subject:
Diocletian, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 245-313.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Persecution -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Persecution -- Rome -- History.
Martyrdom -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian martyrs.
Religion and law -- Rome.
Rome -- History -- Diocletian, 284-305.
Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11369828
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ISBN:9782503574479
2503574475
Notes:"This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation ... at Macquarie University [2014]."--Page vii.
Summary:The Great Persecution under Diocletian and his imperial colleagues and successors is a foremost concern of modern scholarship on Roman persecution of Christians. This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of that persecution. Its focus is on events from 284 when Diocletian became emperor, to 313, when full religious liberty was granted to all religions by the so-called Edict of Milan. At least nine imperial orders were issued in 303 to 312 against Christianity. While Diocletian's orders were more concerned with the privileged upper classes of Christians, Maximinus Daia's orders were aimed at isolating all Christians from the Roman community. The enforcement of the imperial orders, and the sufferings of Christians under them, are examined on a diocese-by-diocese basis, comparing the situation in the West and in the East.

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