The Edict of Milan was an agreement reached on February 13, 313 AD between Western Roman Emperor Constantine I and Emperor Licinius, who ruled the Balkans, when the two met at Mediolanum, the city now known as Milan. Building on an earlier edict of toleration Emperor Galerius had issued two years before at Serdica, the two emperors agreed to change Roman policy toward Christians and treat them with benevolence, giving Christianity legal standing and ending its persecution across the empire. The edict did not make Christianity the empire's official religion, which happened only in 380 AD under the separate Edict of Thessalonica.
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Document TypeImperial edict of toleration 1 Creation Year Origin PlaceMediolanum (modern Milan) 1 Current LocationOriginal letters not preserved; text survives in Lactantius and Eusebius 1 Document Type
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Where can the text of the Edict of Milan be read, if the original is lost?
Later writers preserved it: the Latin text is in Lactantius and a Greek translation is in Eusebius.
The original letters have never been recovered, so the edict is known only through later writers. The Latin text is found in Lactantius, and a Greek translation is found in Eusebius.
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the 13 February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire
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13 February 313 AD
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Mediolanum (modern-day Milan)
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The actual letters have never been retrieved.
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Edictum Mediolanense
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The Edict of Milan (Latin: Edictum Mediolanense; Greek: Διάταγμα τῶν Μεδιολάνων, Diatagma tōn Mediolanōn) was the 13 February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire.
In Era: Classical Antiquity, lead paragraph and infobox, date
The Edict of Milan (Latin: Edictum Mediolanense; Greek: Διάταγμα τῶν Μεδιολάνων, Diatagma tōn Mediolanōn) was the 13 February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire.
In Group: Constitutions, Charters and Statutes of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Lead
The Edict of Milan (Latin: Edictum Mediolanense; Greek: Διάταγμα τῶν Μεδιολάνων, Diatagma tōn Mediolanōn) was the 13 February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire.
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