 | A Threat to Public Peity: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution Subjects: Persecution -- History -- Early church ca. 30–600; Church history -- Primitive and early church ca. 30–600; Christianity -- Philosophy -- History; Platonists; Violence -- Philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Violence -- Religious aspects; 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. 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. |
