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

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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.

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