In order to arrive at an authentic and healthy juridical understanding of tolerance on the basis of «conscientious» and natural law, we will analyze one of its monuments—Emperor Constantine’s Edict of ...

In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Initially it was the religion of the urban areas: the civitas. The population at large, though, continued for some time their polytheistic worship based on Roman and Celtic beliefs.

Voice 2: In 313 AD, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan. The edict granted religious toleration to Christians and officially ended the persecution of Christians within the Roman Empire.

The persecution came to an end in 313, when the co-emperors Constantine and Licinius signed the Edict of Milan, which granted tolerance to Christianity in the empire. Just a year later ...