A Threat to Public Piety

by Elizabeth Depalma Digeser

In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441811
• ISBN13: 9780801441813
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher