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(Latin: Edictum Mediolanense)
-the Edict of Milan was the February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire-
(Western Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius, who controlled the Balkans, met in Milan and among other things, agreed to change policies towards Christians following the “Edict of Toleration” by Galerius issued two years earlier in Serdica)
(the “Edict of Milan” gave Christianity a legal status, but did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire; this took place under “Emperor Theodosius I” in 380 AD)
(the document is found in Lactantius’ De Mortibus Persecutorum and in Eusebius of Caesarea’s History of the Church with marked divergences between the two)
(whether or not there was a formal ‘Edict of Milan’ is debatable)
(the version found in Lactantius is not in the form of an “edict”)
(it is a letter from “Licinius” to the governors of the provinces in the Eastern Empire he had just conquered by defeating “Maximinus” later in the same year and issued in “Nicomedia”)
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