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 ...

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In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

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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