The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...
The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by ...
Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...
The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long, the amulet contains a wafer-thin ...
One does not ordinarily think of the following activities as having deep political implications, or as sending a strong ...
Kahlos, M. 2011a. “Who Is a Good Roman? Setting and Resetting Boundaries for Romans, Christians, Pagans, and Barbarians in the Late Roman Empire.” In The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and ...
Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...
Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once ... the former metropolis and the eastern Roman Empire, researchers at the Austrian Academy ...
Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...