罗马帝国晚期异教与基督教之间的宽容与压迫——以德丘斯皇帝的宗教政策为中心

众所周知,德丘斯皇帝以其宗教敕令而被冠以'令人恐惧的暴君'之名。然而,仔细考察其短暂但颇有建树的执政生涯,异教作家们对他整体上却有着积极的评价。对德丘斯皇帝其他为数不多的敕令的研究显示,这位伊利里亚君主通过个案正义之运用,善于解决古典法学传统中的市民法问题。对拜占庭晚期文献的分析则对德丘斯皇帝的宗教敕令是否也是宗教压迫提出了怀疑。

Emperor Decius is known to posterity particularly for his religious edict that indiced Christian authors to nickname him infestus tyrannus or execrabile animal.The evaluation of his short,but eventful reign by pagan authors,by contrast,is generally positive.The study of other sparse Decius'legislation makes it clear that the Illyrian emperor was also interestes to solve problems in civil law in the tradition of classical jurisprudence by evaluating the justice of specific individual cases.And the analyse of a late byzantine source makes doubt that his religious edict was a persecutory one.