Roman Anti-Christian Persecutions: Reframing the Paradigm By Paula Fredriksen

https://www.academia.edu/81032686/Roman_Anti_Christian_Persecutions_Reframing_the_Paradigm?nav_from=e609eedb-2db0-44c1-893e-f083b7ae1a82 In his landmark essay "Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted?" the renowned British historian G.E.M. de Ste. Croix famously advanced a chronological framework for analyzing Roman anti-Christian coercion which, he claimed, ended with Constantine. This essay challenges that paradigm, and argues that the widest and most sustained Roman anti-Christian persecutions came AFTER the accession of Constantine. ...