The “Crisis of the Third Century,” a fifty-year period which saw some two dozen men hold the imperium and some score more make bids for it, came to an end with the accession of Diocletian (r., 284-305 ...
The dawn of the fourth century must have seemed like the beginning of an endless night for the Christians of the Roman Empire. As of 303, Emperor Diocletian, spurred on by his co-emperor Galerius, had ...
During the darkest hours of persecution in Rome, around 303, when Christian property was confiscated and Christians’ legal rights were threatened if they failed to follow imperial edicts, the Emperor ...
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