Great Persecution: A Historical Re-Examination

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Paperback, xii + 280 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574479. 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. In the late fourth century, Prudentius of Calahorra, poet and imperial official, complained about the loss of records on local martyrs, exclaiming, 'Alas for what is forgotten and lost to knowledge in the silence of the olden time! We are denied the facts about these matters, the very tradition is destroyed.' This book draws together the remains of what Prudentius feared was forgotten for ever. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS TABLES AND MAP FIGURES INTRODUCTION 1. Approach and scope of the book 2. Hagiographical documents (and martyr-acts) as historical sources or not? CHAPTER ONE. CHRISTIANS AND THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT UP TO THE GREAT PERSECUTION 1. The intellectual background of the latter part of the third century 2. The rapid expansion of Christianity from AD 260 to 303 3. Martyrdom in the Roman army 4. Diocletian's restoration of the Roman traditional virtues: innovation and restoration 5. Summary CHAPTER TWO. THE PERSECUTIONS BETWEEN 303 AND 313 1. The reconstruction of imperial documents issued against Christians 2. The enforcement of imperial orders and martyrdoms of Christians in the Roman empire 3. The persecution of Christians under Tiridates III, King of Armenia 4. Summary CHAPTER THREE. THE END OF THE PERSECUTION 1. Impeiral proclamations ordering the end of the persecution 2. Licinius' reviving of the persecution of Christians in 321/4 and its end 3. Summary CONCLUSION APPENDICES 1. A list of martyrs in Eusebius's De Martyribus Palaestinae in chronological order 2. A list of name-identified martyrs during the Great Persecution on a diocese-by-diocese basis 3. A list of martyr acts and hagiographical texts and their editions used in this book BIBLIOGRAPHY 0 g. …

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Great Persecution: A Historical Re-Examination
Author
Min Seok Shin
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, Brepols, 2019
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