The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire

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1. Story
2. Constantine and Licinius met at Milan in early 313 and agreed a policy of religious toleration and restitution of confiscated Christian property. The text that survives, quoted by Lactantius in On the Deaths of the Persecutors, is not formally an edict and was not issued at Milan: it is a letter from Licinius to provincial governors, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313. Scholars therefore generally treat the familiar name as a misnomer while accepting the substance of the Milan agreement. The measure did not make Christianity the state religion; it removed legal penalty and restored property, and later fourth-century legislation went much further.
3. Knowledge
4. Constantinople
5. Christianity
6. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
7. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
8. Connections
9. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
10. Christianity
11. Constantinople
12. Malacca (Melaka)
13. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
14. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
15. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
16. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
17. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
18. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
19. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
20. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
21. Alexandria
22. Constantinople
23. Judaism
24. Jerusalem (Old City)
25. Aksum
26. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
27. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
28. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
29. Alopen received at the Tang court
30. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
31. Antioch on the Orontes
32. Dedication of Constantinople
33. Silkworm cultivation reaches Byzantium
34. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
35. Christianity
36. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
37. Dedication of Constantinople
38. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
39. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
40. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
41. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
42. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
43. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
44. Istanbul
45. Evidence
46. The document conventionally called the 'Edict of Milan' survives as a letter from Licinius to provincial governors, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313, recording terms agreed with Constantine at Milan; it is formally not an edict and was not issued at Milan.