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  2. Codex Theodosianus - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Emperor Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the compilation was published by a constitution of 15 February 438.

  3. Edict of Thessalonica - Wikipedia

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    The Ecclesiastical Edicts of the Theodosian Code. Columbia University Press. Ehler, Sidney Zdeneck; Morrall, John B (1967). Church and State Through the Centuries: A Collection of Historic Documents with Commentaries. ISBN 978-0-8196-0189-6. Ferguson, Everett; McHugh, Michael P.; Norris, Frederick W. (1999). Encyclopedia of Early Christianity ...

  4. Mary Brown Pharr - Wikipedia

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    On December 1945, at the age of 35, Brown married her advisor, Clyde Pharr, and became his research assistant. [5] By April, 1946, Mary was the assistant editor of the Theodosian Code translation project, [6] which was to be the first volume in a series translating the whole body of Roman law. [7]

  5. Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Theodosian Law Code has long been one of the principal sources for the study of Late Antiquity. [222] It is an incomplete [223]: 106 [224] collection of laws dating from the reign of Constantine to the date of their promulgation as a collection in 438. Religious laws are in book 16. The code contains at least sixty-six laws targeted at ...

  6. Forced conversion - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Theodosianus (Eng. Theodosian Code) was a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 [9] [10] and the compilation was published by a constitution of 15 February 438. It went into force in the ...

  7. Anti-paganism policies of the early Byzantine Empire

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    Two more laws against paganism, which may be from this period, are preserved in the Justinian Code. [46] After the deposition of Avitus, who ruled as emperor of the West from 455 to 456, there seems to have been a conspiracy among the Roman nobles to place the pagan general Marcellinus on the throne to restore paganism; but it came to nothing. [15]

  8. THE END - HuffPost

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    Iam writing because we have an emergency. Here are U.S. news headlines from a two-week period in the late summer of 2006: July 22: “CIA WORKER SAYS MESSAGE ON TORTURE GOT HER FIRED.” Christine Axsmith, a computer security expert working for the C.I.A., said she had been fired for posting a message on a blog site on a top-secret computer ...

  9. Persecution of pagans under Theodosius I - Wikipedia

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    The persecution of pagans under Theodosius I began in 381, after the first couple of years of his reign as co-emperor in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.In the 380s, Theodosius I reiterated the ban of Constantine the Great on animal sacrifices, prohibited haruspicy on animal sacrifice, pioneered the criminalization of magistrates who did not enforce anti-pagan laws, broke up some pagan ...