LEGI IMPERIALE ÎN CONTEXTUL DISPUTELOR SUD-DUNĂRENE / IMPERIAL LAWS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOUTH DANUBE DISPUTES - PR. CONF. UNIV. DR. MARIN COJOC

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Abstract: La începutul secolului al V-lea, capitala estică, Noua Romă, Constantinopol devenise, prin mărturia marelui cronicar Philostorgius, „un oraș în care totul era creștin”, și a adoptat o serie de legi pentru unitatea credinței împotriva păgânismului și a altor fracțiuni sau dizidenți creștini. Toate aceste măsuri trebuiau să fie impuse prin forțe militare, atât în Illyricum, cât și în Occident, deoarece ele deveniseră legale după decretul din 380.

Keywords: byzantinistik, illyricum, danubien teritories

Summary: In this period at the beginning of the fifth century, the eastern capital, the New Rome, Constantinople had become, by the testimony of the great chronicler Philostorgius, Christianople and passed a series of laws for the unity of faith against paganism and other fractions or Christian dissidents. All these measures had to be imposed through military force (manu militari), both in the Illyricum, and in the West, as they had become points of law after the decree cunctos populos in 380.

However, this initiative started with the Christian enactments given by Theodosius I through which any form of paganism was banned, but mostly in the years 415-416 when empress Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius II, in her quality of regent took the decision that all processes regarding pagans should be imposed through military force (manu militari),and the charged to be handed over to the civil courts. The historian Malchus later wrote that paganism had suffered a great loss due to those measures, and Constantinople, which signed the belief of other people was ”a city where everything was christian”. All these made Theodosius II assert through a law emitted in 423, at the beginning of Coelestin’s pasturing, that: ”pagans who previously existed in abundance, from now we believe there is none left”. Of course, it was an expression slightly exaggerated, but one that largely expressed the particular evolution that Christianity reached with the support of statal measures, especially those from the east, beginning with Theodosius I, up to the peak moment (423) of the long reign of Theodosius II (408-450).

Pr. Marin COJOC – conferențiar universitar doctor la Catedra de Istoria Bizanțului și Istoria Bisericească Universală a Facultății de Teologie Ortodoxă din cadrul Universității din Craiova

Locație: București

E-mail:marin.cojoc@yahoo.com

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