Summary
Religious legislation against heretics was an innovation in the Late Roman Empire and its enforcement involved great difficulties. The provincial governors who, except in the period of the persecution of Christians, had tolerated religious diversity, were to implement exclusion laws against pagans and heretical groups. This paper analyzes the form of interaction between bishops, emperors and judges in the issuing and enforcement of the laws against heretics, as well as casting light on the relevance of episcopal intervention as a method of informing and shaping the imperial will.
Acknowledgment
This article is part of the HAR 2013–41470 Research project funded by the State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation of the Ministry of Economie and Competitiveness, Madrid.
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
