Early Christianity
however, the Donatists once again felt the force of imperial coercion, this time exerted by a Christian emperor in search of ecc ...
same time, the rich pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus is supposed to have quipped: ‘Make me bishop of the city of Rome ...
the tribal leaders of the Khazars in central Asia actually converted to Judaism. Finally, while Christianity certainly expanded ...
It consists of an exchange of letters from the early second century between Pliny the Younger and the emperor Trajan. In this ca ...
crimes (flagitia) associated with the name. In the meantime, this is the line I have followed with those brought before me on th ...
breach of trust and to deny a deposit when called upon to restore it. When these things were finished it had been their custom t ...
a fixed formula. 2.They [the Christians] must not be hunted out; if they are brought before you and convicted, they must be puni ...
investigation surely implies that he knew of such investigations, perhaps at Rome, in the recent past. He supplements this gener ...
on Pliny’s part, but they fit the customary characterization of dan- gerous superstitions in the Roman mindset. Abandonment of t ...
The flow of accusations did not abate, however, with new ones now supplied by an informer (index: § 6). The persons now accused ...
precedents that are entirely out of keeping with Trajan’s ideals of government for his reign (nostrum saeculum: § 2). Perhaps th ...
of Rome’s dealings with Christianity (Ecclesiastical History 3.33.3). What is most interesting about Eusebius’ analysis of the e ...
Both Tertullian and Eusebius sought to place the corre- spondence of Pliny and Trajan in the context of Roman attitudes to the C ...
when an emperor wished to have closer supervision over the affairs of a particular province. What were the circumstances that pr ...
the circumstances of his appointment and arrival in Bithynia and Pontus. Mandatawere the specific instructions given to a govern ...
quite firm that ‘in other cities, which are subject to our gover- nance, institutions of this kind must be forbidden’ (10.93). A ...
223) prepared a compendium of laws about provincial adminis- tration called The Duty of the Proconsuls. Its seventh book assembl ...
Chapter 7 Discovering early Christianity The previous chapters in this book have mapped out various ways in which early Christia ...
(and in the bibliography), follow up the references that they give to investigate the topic further. Points of departure General ...
are described by time-travellers to ancient Pompeii, Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor – and for such reasons, the book has drawn som ...
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