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Christiana Dicnitas: New Christian Criteria for Citizenship in the Late Roman Empire1

In: Medieval Encounters
Author:
Carolina Lo Nero Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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01 Jan 2001
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Abstract

The following article focuses on the influence of Christian thought on imperial Roman law towards non-Christian subjects. In particular Theodosian and Justinian Codes show a certain discrimination based on status regarding Jews, heretics, and apostates. Under the influence of Christianity a new system of values was attributed to classical legal terms. This process also involved the concept of citizen, and inequalities of prestige were associated with people's religious creeds. What in Roman law was previously understood as civis was now transferred to the Christianus civis.

Title:
Christiana Dicnitas: New Christian Criteria for Citizenship in the Late Roman Empire1
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/157006701X00021
Language:
English
Pages:
146–164
In:
Medieval Encounters
In:
Volume 7: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1570-0674
Print ISSN:
1380-7854
Subjects:
Medieval History, History, History & Culture, Middle East and Islamic Studies

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