The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes—seditio
This work explores the rise of Christianity in the late Roman period with a focus on the Great Persecution of Christians in 300 AD. DePalma Digeser (history, U. of California) challenges the assumptio
The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes—seditio
Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of the Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, was once considered only in terms of the 'decline' from classical standards. More
