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From Superstitio to Heresy
Abstract
There are obvious similarities between Roman laws against superstitio—defined as excessive religious credulity, hence magic and private divination, and then paganism—and Roman laws against heresy: both sets of laws represent attempts by the state to define and prohibit religious behaviors. Yet for all their similarities, justifications for laws against heresy were significantly different from those against superstitio. Heresy laws prohibited not just behaviors but beliefs. A comparison of laws on superstitio and heresy in the early fifth-century Theodosian Code shows how heresy laws were directly tied to a Christian tradition of divine law that focused on the precepts and rules laid down by the Christian God himself—God’s law—in a way that was not the case for laws on superstitio. This chapter thus elucidates a fundamental shift in the nature of imperial authority as emperors aligned themselves with a new, unassailable source of power.
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This chapter compares Roman laws on *superstitio* (magic, illicit divination, and later paganism) with laws on heresy in the fifth-century Theodosian Code, arguing that heresy laws were uniquely justified by divine law—God's law—in a way *superstitio* laws were not. This innovation, begun under Constantine and consolidated under Theodosius I, gave emperors a new, divinely sanctioned source of authority that contrasts with contemporary Chinese Buddhist notions of retributive justice.
Key findings
- Laws on *superstitio* restricted practices and were justified by civic good and public order, whereas heresy laws criminalized beliefs and were tied to divine law; *sacrilegium* became standard for heretics for the first time in the Code (Arians called a "poisonous sacrilege," *C. Th.* 16.5.6.1; Eunomians and Arians "sacrilegious doctrine," *C. Th.* 16.5.8).
- Constantine's heresy laws were innovative (a 326 CE law denying heretics religious privileges; the *Letter to Heretics* justifying confiscation of meeting places by his own "blessedness," i.e., salvation), while his *superstitio* laws were not; the author finds no extant Constantinian law prohibiting pagan sacrifice.
- Under Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I (379–391 CE), there are thirteen laws on heretics (*C. Th.* 16.5.5–.16; 16.2.25) versus only six against pagan cult and magic/illicit divination (16.10.7–.11; 9.16.11), and the term *superstitio* disappears from laws against pagan cult and magic in this period.
- Under Theodosius II and Valentinian III (425–450 CE), there are five laws against heretics (16.5.62–66) plus a sixth in the *Novellae* of Valentinian, versus one law against pagan practices (16.10.25, 435 CE); the 428 CE law ranked heresies from bad to worse, placing Manichaeans at "the lowest depth of wickedness" and linking them to magic.
Methods
- Historical and legal analysis comparing laws on *superstitio* and heresy preserved in the Theodosian Code (promulgated 438 CE), many also in the sixth-century Justinianic Code, across three periods: Constantine (312–337 CE), Gratian/Valentinian II/Theodosius I (379–391 CE), and Theodosius II/Valentinian III (425–450 CE).
- Sources are the laws themselves, supplemented by imperial public pronouncements (e.g., Constantine's *Letter to the Provincials of the East* and *Letter to Heretics* preserved by Eusebius) to elucidate legislative intent, plus secondary scholarship (Humfress, Sandwell, Hall, Norderval, Errington, and others).
Limitations
- Stated by the author: laws in the Code were generally drafted by the *quaestor sacri palatii*, not the emperor personally; the Code's laws were collected and excerpted for publication, so fuller explanations may have been excised; and laws resulted from a constant dialectic between law in practice and law as written, each with a specific context. She also states she does not discuss bishops or councils at length.
- Evident in the text: the argument about imperial intent is inferential—the author concedes that "to what degree individual emperors consciously grasped the inherent power that came from this claim is perhaps not a question we can answer given our sources."
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“Heresy laws prohibited not just behaviors but beliefs.”
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“Laws on heresy criminalized not just behaviors but the 'wrong' religious beliefs that gave rise to such behaviors, an innovation in Roman law introduced only after Constantine had included Christianity in the legal framework of the empire, as C. Humfress has observed.”
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“There are obvious similarities between Roman laws against superstitiodeg7Fned as excessive religious credulity, hence magic and private divination, and then paganism-and Roman laws against heresy: both sets of laws represent attempts by the state to deg7Fne and prohibit religious behaviors.”
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“There are no extant laws from these emperors against superstitio as magic or divination.”
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“the real crime, the law goes on, is not in any act that undermined the common good-as had been the civic precedent in criminalizing superstitiobut because such 'noxious' doctrines have 'weakened the concept ( opinionem ) of god.'”
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“In a law of 326 CE , Constantine prohibited heretics and schismatics from the same sorts of privileges of religion granted to those under the Catholic law ( lex Catholica ).”
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“Nonetheless, Constantine did not legislate against pagan sacrig7Fce for, as he explained:”
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“In contrast, the legal justig7Fcations for laws against superstitio show little in the way of change.”
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“It is worth remarking that in the Code as we have it, there is no law of Constantine that prohibited pagan cult sacrig7Fce-one deg7Fnition of superstitio .”
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“A 388 CE law directed to Trifolius, Praetorian Prefect of Italy, states 'All members of diverse and perg7Fdious sects, who are driven by the insanity of a miserable conspiracy against God shall not be allowed to have an assembly anywhere.'”
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“It is striking that even the emotionally laden term s uperstitio disappears from the laws against pagan cult and magic in this period (16.10.7-10.11; 381-391 CE ).”
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“Now, even the punishment is what god would decree, for the law concludes that emperor's retribution is in accord with 'divine judgment.'”
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“Later on, emperors revived the legal usage of the term s uperstitio in the early g7Ffth century primarily in association with heresy.”
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“So in a law of 380 CE , the emperors state, 'The persons who through ignorance confuse or through negligence violate and offend the sanctity of the divine law commit sacrilege ( sacrilegium ).”
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“Constantine inherited an already established body of law on superstitio.”
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“It is not until a 391 CE law, again attributed to Theodosius and directed to the Prefect of the city of Rome, that we see legislation against pagan practices without any reference to divination and magic.”
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“Lacking a link to divine justice, superstitio became a less robust category in later fourth-century Roman law.”
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“Finally, not even pagans hostile to Constantine-Zosimus, Julian, and Libanius-ascribe such a blanket law against pagan sacrig7Fce to this emperor.”
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“The appeal to divine law-by which the emperors mean not just the law of the emperors and of man but God's law-recurs in their legislation.”
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“Imperial laws explain that these false ideas lead to corrupting practices-notably here, second baptism.”
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“An important law of 379 CE issued under the names of these three emperors to Hesperius, Praetorian Prefect of Gaul and Italy, asserted that 'all heresies are forbidden by 'both divine and imperial laws' and shall forever cease.'”
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“For example, a law of 381, attributed to Theodosius, outlawed 'forbidden sacrig7Fces, by day or night, (by) a consulter of uncertain events' -an allusion to magic and illicit divination.”
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“In a sweeping law of 428, these emperors collected and differentiated between all known heresies.”
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“But the openness of the law could create con icts in local situations; a second law, a mere twenty-four days later, exempted the Novatians from its prohibitions.”
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“Similarly wide ranging was their use of arguments from divine law as well as Roman legal precedents to justify their hierarchized punishments for heresies.”
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“In sharp contrast, divine justice is not generally adduced for laws on superstitio , that is magic or illicit divination, or the new category of pagan cult practices.”
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“The guilty, we are told, will 'pay the severest penalty both to God and to the laws.'”
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“Imperial justig7Fcations that emperors are acting with divine justice against heretics are, however, lacking in the laws against superstitio, deg7Fned as illicit divination, magic, or pagan sacrig7Fce in the Theodosian Code .”
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“By the 380s, Christian emperors, and most notably Theodosius I, commonly asserted that the union of imperial and divine law authorized them to take action against heresies.”
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“In a 428 CE law issued just nine months before the g7Frst project for compiling the Theodosian Code was announced ( C. Th . 16.5.65.2), the emperors provide a comprehensive list of all heresies to the Praetorian Prefect”
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“This notion of a pseudoapostolic succession with Simon Magus as original heresiarch is explicitly stated in a 435 CE code by these emperors that links the heretical bishop Nestorius with Simon Magus himself:”
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“But in public letters, he justig7Fed his actions with a novel explanation, for he asserted that the correction of heretics was necessary for his personal 'blessedness,' that is, salvation.”
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“Yet for all their similarities, justig7Fcations for laws against heresy were signig7Fcantly different from those against superstitio .”
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“Yet for all their similarities, the justig7Fcations for and development of laws against heresy were signig7Fcantly different from those against superstitio.”
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“A comparison of laws on superstitio and heresy in the early g7Ffth-century Theodosian Code shows how heresy laws were directly tied to a Christian tradition of divine law that focused on the precepts and rules laid down by the Christian God himselfGod's law-in a way that was not the case for laws on superstitio .”
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“In particular, because laws on heresy were tied to 'a 'Christian' tradition of divine law that focused on the precepts and rules laid down by the Christian God himself,' laws on heresy were part of divine justice-God's law-in a way that was not the case for laws on supersitito , deg7Fned either as magic, illicit private divination or pagan practice.”
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“These emperors appear more concerned with heresy than superstitio , or so it would appear based on the sheer number of laws on heretics in the Theodosian Code ;”
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“Constantine's Letter to Heretics , from Eusebius VC 3.64-65, is likely dated after Nicaea but before the 326 law noted previously.”
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“Constantine's laws against heresy contrast with his laws on superstitio .”
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“In explaining his own blessedness as dependent on removing the superstition of heresy from society, Constantine is providing a new imperial justig7Fcation for legislating against illicit religions and destroying their places of worship.”
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“But I doubt that Constantine took such a blanket action in his lifetime.”
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“As the g7Ffth-century ecclesiastical historian Socrates tells us, Constantine condemned Arius for infamia .”
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“Second, Eusebius's testimony on several actions pertaining to pagan cult under Constantine are misleading or downright erroneous; for example, no one disputes that Eusebius misled when he stated that Constantine outlawed all images and oracles.”
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“Even if, as Herrington argues, this law is only intended for Constantinople, it is clearly following Constantinian legal precedent by threatening infamia for heretics.”
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“More likely, as Sandwell argued, the law that Eusebius mentions as outlawing sacrig7Fce was directed at the previously discussed laws against private divination and magic.”
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“This chapter thus elucidates a fundamental shift in the nature of imperial authority as emperors aligned themselves with a new, unassailable source of power.”
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“But it is worth reiterating that Constantine's justig7Fcation was novel insofar as his own blessedness -that is, salvation-depended on correcting the erroneous beliefs and actions of heretics.”
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“This notion of justice allowed Christian emperors and bishops to claim new sources of state power, a movement that is far different from the ways in which Buddhist views of retribution through transmigration were articulated and in uenced society in roughly contemporary Chinese texts as shown, for example, in Heller's chapter in this volume.”
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“By prosecuting g7Frst Porphry and then Arius on the charge of infamia , Constantine established legal precedent for criminalizing wrong beliefs.”
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“This fusion of imperial and God's law leads to the branding of heretics as guilty of sacrilege.”
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“One key in uence was certainly the bishops, who felt it their duty to ensure the salvation of Christians under their protection.”
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“From the perspective of the imperial legislators, the claim to be advancing divine justice by legislating against heresy offered a new means for legitimating their authority.”
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“This post-Constantinian notion of divinely sanctioned imperial justice was on the ascendant in the later Roman Empire.”
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“On this point, then, the law follows certain heresiological texts that interpreted the confrontation found in Acts 8.9- 25 between the Apostle Peter and Simon Magus, a practitioner of sorcery and adept of magical arts, as the origin of all heresies.”
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“This law thus linked the worst heretics, Manichees, with superstitio, understood here to mean magic.”
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“and that in uence made it plausible for Nestorius himself to make the claim that he had, in the early days of his episcopate, been responsible for a law against heretics.”
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“Again, these emperors are far more concerned with heretics than with pagans, diviners, or magicians.”
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“Comparison of the laws on heresy and those on superstitio in the Theodosian Code shows how emperors aligned themselves with a new source of authority, divine law.”
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“Moreover, imperial explanations that criminalized heretics on the basis of divine law are also tied to the desire seen in laws of the late fourth century CE , to punish heretics for the much more serious crime of sacrilege ( sacrilegium ) because they are acting not only against men through their beliefs but also against god and divine law.”
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“The innovations in justifying imperial law that I have outlined above had long-term consequences.”
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“This seems the opposite of what we see in this same period in China where Buddhist views on retributive justice through the transmigration of souls confronted earlier Chinese views of the Celestial Thearch(s) that were worshipped by the emperors, as outlined by Natasha Heller's chapter in this volume.”
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“This was an uneven process that unfolded over the course of the fourth and early g7Ffth centuries.”
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“Buddhism in China, in roughly the same centuries I have been discussing, added another dimension that deterred most Chinese emperors from claiming to be the agents of the divine justice.”
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“In China, Buddhist ideas of retributive justice could, at times, undermine the authority of an emperor.”
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“Their illicit power over the elements g7Fts the legal deg7Fnition of magic.”
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“Certainly, bishops and the decisions of councils on correct belief in uenced emperors and imperial legislators from the time of Constantine on.”
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“Indeed, the Latin word sacrilege ( sacrilegium ) now becomes standard for the g7Frst time in the Code for heretics: Arians are called a 'poisonous sacrilege' ( C. Th. 16.5.6.1); Eunomians and Arians include ministers of 'sacrilegious doctrine' ( sacrilegi dogmatis C. Th . 16.5.8).”
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“Christian emperors, starting with Constantine (306-337 CE ), incorporated Christianity into the legal framework of the empire.”
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“There is one law against pagan practices, not deg7Fned as superstitio , from these rulers (16.10.25); this 435 CE law, directed to the Praetorian Prefect of the East, asserts prohibitions of rites and places, that is, visiting temples and sacrig7Fces, by 'persons of criminal pagan mind' ( sceleratae mentis paganae ).”
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“It is of some importance to historians that the heretics addressed in Constantine's Letter did not include the most problematic, contemporary Christian groups-Arians, Donatists, or Meletians.”
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“In contrast, there are g7Fve laws (16.5.62-66) against heretics in the Theodosian Code , and a sixth law from the Novellae of Valentinian that falls within this period.”
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“The g7Frst extant law that ordered the 'end of superstitio and the insanity of sacrig7Fces' dates to 341 CE ; it stipulates punishments for those who do these things 'in violation of the law of the sainted emperor, Our Father' ( C. Th . 16.10.2.).”
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- Not matchedcites C. Th. 16.10.2.
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“The law identig7Fes the 'religion' ( religio ) handed down by Peter the Apostle and articulated by certain specig7Fc bishops, such as Bishop Damasus of Rome and also Bishop Peter of Alexander as the true, Catholic faith; those who do not agree with the views of these bishops are 'judged demented and insane' and will 'sustain infamy from heretical dogma.'”
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“Hence, the fourth and g7Ffth centuries saw a proliferation of new imperial legislation that, understandably, drew on Roman legal precedents concerning the correct relationship between religion and the state.”
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“there are some thirteen laws on heretics (16.5.5-.16, 379388 CE , and 16.2.25, 380 CE ) from this period, and less than half as many, only six, laws against pagan cult and magic/illicit divination (16.10.7-.11, 381-391 CE ; and 9.16.11, 389 CE ).”
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“The Letter is addressed to 'Novatians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Paulians, and those called Cataphrygians,' whom Constantine then goes on to denounce as 'venomous poisons' that bring 'the living to everlasting death.'”
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“This law does not deg7Fne any one heresy, but issues a blanket criticism of heresy as 'perverse superstition' ( perversa superstitio );”
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“The ambiguity in Constantine's laws on superstitio and heresy left much room for interpretation by local administrators.”
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“Now, for the g7Frst time, we see the emperors -principally Theodosius I-drafting laws that link the prohibition of heresies-beliefs and practices-with God's law, even as the term superstitio fades from usage.”
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“In time, however, Constantine sought greater precision in deg7Fning and legislating against heresy. This trend toward greater specig7Fcity and more explicit language does not appear in his laws against superstitio.”
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“Therefore, Constantine prohibited the private consultation of soothsayersharuspices -but allowed their public consultation by those persons who 'wish to serve their own superstitio '-that is, divination or paganism.”
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“This 391 law, interestingly, omits the term superstitio as it decries sacrig7Fce and deg7Fnes visits to temples as actions worthy of divine and human 'sanctions.'”
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“The books that contain Nestorius's ideas will be burned, as were those of Arius.”
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“In the early fourth century, Constantine initiated this development by legislating against heretics using the legal precedent of punishments for infamia .”
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“'The lowest depth of wickedness,' the Manichaeans are to be expelled from Roman soil 'since no opportunity should be left to any of them whereby an injury might be wrought on the elements themselves.'”
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“Worse than these are some sixteen named heresies that are prohibited even from meeting.”
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“A 445 CE novella of Valentinian III continues the campaign against the Manichees in Rome and Italy.”
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“Any Manichaeans apprehended shall suffer the penalties that the laws have sanctioned against persons guilty of sacrilege ( Nov. Val . 18.1.1), a punishment seen earlier under the emperor Theodosius I directed against all heretics.”
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“This law is justig7Fed in terms of divine law and the common good.”
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“That superstition ( superstitio ) which was condemned also in pagan times, which is hostile to the public discipline and an enemy to the Christian faith, has not undeservedly provoked our clemency to its own destruction.”
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“Nestorius, the author of a monstrous superstitio, shall be condemned … adherents of the nefarious sect of Nestorius shall everywhere be called Simonians, in order that thy may appear rightly to have received the name of him whose crime they have imitated in deserting God.”
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“Below them are Novatians and Sabbatians, who are deprived of the right to build new churches as well.”
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“They ranked the heresies from bad to worse. So the least offensive are the Arians, Macedonians, and Apollinarians, 'whose crime it is to be deceived by harmful meditation and to believe lies about the Fountain of Truth [Christ or the Church].' Their punishment was to be deprived of a church in a municipality.”
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“Admittedly this law, with its encyclopedic list of heresies, is unusual for the sheer number of groups listed.”
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- Not matchedcites C. Th. 16.5.65
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“As noted previously, in classical usage superstitio meant excessive religious credulity. Thus, this term was applied to magic, illicit divination, and more widely in the fourth century, to pagan practices.”
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- Not matchedcites John Scheid
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“In uenced by the bishops and by the decisions of councils he called, Constantine issued laws on heresy that were both innovative and in uential. In contrast, Constantine's laws on superstitio were neither.”
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“As I will show, laws on s uperstitio restricted practices and justig7Fed such actions as being for the civic good; although protecting the community's relationship with the gods, laws on superstitio were nonetheless deemed man-made responses to protect the public order and the state.”
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“Constantine's blanket prohibition of heresy was useful for administrators, and bishops could apply it to dissident Christians in their local contexts.”
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“This law makes no mention of superstition but rather presents its justig7Fcation as follows: 'God must be worshipped by chaste prayers and not be profaned by dire incantations,' a reference to the profane prayers of heretical Christians as much as pagans or magicians.”
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“In pre-Constantinian law, as John Scheid has shown, superstitio was not in itself a crime; rather, it was the disruption or threat to the state represented by such religiosity that led to criminalization.”
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- Not matchedcites John Scheid
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“Theodosius in particular attempted to deg7Fne not only wrong belief but the right one; a 380 CE law, attributed to the three ruling emperors but really issued by Theodosius to the people of Constantinople, is the g7Frst extant legal attempt to deg7Fne the right interpretation of Nicene belief.”
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- Not matchedcites [38]
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- Not matchedcites [39]
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“by asserting that they are following divine law, emperors aligned themselves with an mandate authority over the state and acquired a new source of power that went well beyond traditional justig7Fcations for Roman justice.”
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“Yet, Christianity could not easily g7Ft into the standard categories for dealing with new cults. Consequently, the introduction of Christianity spawned certain innovations in Roman law.”
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“Under these rulers, we see the clear emergence of the idea that imperial law is based on the precepts and rules set by God; but by this date, law, that is, civic law, is one and the same with God's law when it comes to legislating against heresy.”
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“It is unlikely that the bishops drafted the laws since they were normally drafted by quaestors who were specially trained for this role.”
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“These trends show the growing expectations that emperors defend orthodoxy, however they deg7Fned it, and how, conversely, emperors used this power to assert their imperial authority over society in the century after Constantine.”
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“Humfress 1997: 217-272, and at 271, recognizes the novelty of the legal categories constructed in the prosecution of heretics, but she pays little attention to the rhetorical justifications and their political import as they develop over time, the subject of this chapter.”
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- Not matchedcites Humfress 1997: 217-272
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- Not matchedcites Humfress 1997: 271
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“Ultimately, this process would lead, in the sixth century, to the emperor Justinian styling himself as the ultimate authority in matters both human and divine in a world in which civil laws as well as those on religion were given by god for emperors to defend.”
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The law itself reflected the views of the imperial consistory despite the quaestor's shaping of its language.
“His shaping of the language of the law does not undermine the fact that the law itself re ected the views of the imperial consistory.”
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If Constantine had outlawed pagan sacrifice, the compilers of the Theodosian Code would have included such a law.
“First, if he had, the compilers of the Code would have included such a law.”
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Public pronouncements by emperors can elucidate the intent of some laws.
“Fuller explanations for imperial legal actions may well have been excised, which is why, at times, I have turned to public pronouncements by emperors to elucidate the intent of some laws.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The number of laws in the Theodosian Code on a topic indicates the emperors' level of concern about that topic.
“or so it would appear based on the sheer number of laws on heretics in the Theodosian Code”
The paper relies on this without support.
The presence or absence of the term superstitio in laws reflects the legal justifications and concerns of the emperors.
“It is striking that even the emotionally laden term s uperstitio disappears from the laws against pagan cult and magic in this period”
The paper relies on this without support.
The extant laws in the Theodosian Code are a representative sample of imperial legislation on heresy, pagan cult, magic, and divination for the periods discussed.
“there are some thirteen laws on heretics (16.5.5-.16, 379388 CE , and 16.2.25, 380 CE ) from this period, and less than half as many, only six, laws against pagan cult and magic/illicit divination”
The paper relies on this without support.
Bishops and councils convened to determine positions about correct and incorrect beliefs and practices.
“Bishops and councils convened to determine positions about correct and incorrect beliefs and practices.”
Citations
Metadata
- Authors
- Salzman, M. R.
- Corresponding author
- Salzman, Michele Renee
- Venue
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2017-06-22
- OpenAlex
- W4255964321
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
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- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Classical Studies and Legal History
- Keywords
- heresy, Roman law, Theodosian Code, early fifth century, paganism, magic, imperial authority, state regulation of religion
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