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As with most emperors, much of Diocletian's daily routine rotated around legal affairs – responding to appeals and petitions, and delivering decisions on disputed matters. Rescripts, authoritative interpretations issued by the emperor in response to demands from disputants in both public and private cases, were a common duty of second- and ...
The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian in 293 AD to govern the ancient Roman Empire by dividing it between two emperors, the augusti, and their junior colleagues and designated successors, the caesares. Initially Diocletian chose Maximian as his caesar in 285, raising him to co- augustus the following year; Maximian ...
The problem of two emperors mostly concerns the medieval dispute between the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (yellow) and the Byzantine Empire (purple) as to which ruler was the legitimate Roman emperor, 12th century borders. The problem of two emperors or two-emperor problem (deriving from the German term Zweikaiserproblem, Greek ...
The persecution failed to check the rise of the Church. By 324, Constantine was sole ruler of the empire, and Christianity had become his favored religion. Although the persecution resulted in death, torture, imprisonment, or dislocation for many Christians, most of the empire's Christians avoided punishment.
Constantine at the battle of the Milvian Bridge, fresco by Raphael, Vatican Rooms. The civil wars of the Tetrarchy were a series of conflicts between the co-emperors of the Roman Empire, starting from 306 AD with the usurpation [1] of Maxentius and the defeat of Severus to the defeat of Licinius at the hands of Constantine I in 324 AD.
The Conference of Carnuntum was a gathering of ancient Roman rulers on 11 November 308, intended to stabilize the power-sharing arrangement known as the Tetrarchy.It was convened by the Eastern augustus Galerius (r. 305–311) in the city of Carnuntum (present-day Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria), which at the time was located in the Roman province of Pannonia Prima.
The system of dual emperors (called Augusti after the founder of the empire, Augustus) had been instituted a century earlier by the great reforming emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305 AD). But it had never been envisaged as a political separation, purely as an administrative and military convenience.
The Roman Emperors Diocletian and Constantine I both played an important role in reforming the organization of the whole empire. The empire in its entirety had become difficult to control, and Diocletian resolved this by creating a Tetrarchy that allowed for augusti to rule in each of the western and eastern halves of the empire, while two ...