Threat to Public Piety - Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution

Klappentext Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome, also from Cornell. Zusammenfassung In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303–313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Depalma Digeser
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2012
• EAN: 9780801441813
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4181-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works